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Singing the Resurrection: Body, Community, and Belief in Reformation Europe , by Erin Lambert

2020; University of California Press; Volume: 73; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/jams.2020.73.3.790

1547-3848

Jessica Herdman,

Historical Influence and Diplomacy

Book Review| December 01 2020 Singing the Resurrection: Body, Community, and Belief in Reformation Europe, by Erin Lambert Singing the Resurrection: Body, Community, and Belief in Reformation Europe, by Erin Lambert. The New Cultural History of Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xiii, 222 pp. Jessica Herdman Jessica Herdman JESSICA HERDMAN is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jesuit Centre for Catholic Studies at the University of Manitoba. Her research focuses on the embodied and affective experiences of music within religious encounters, conflicts, and conciliation. She has published and presented extensively on music in the Wars of Religion in France, and on music in early colonial encounters in North America/Turtle Island. Her research has been supported by SSHRC and the Mellon Foundation. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2020) 73 (3): 790–795. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2020.73.3.790 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jessica Herdman; Singing the Resurrection: Body, Community, and Belief in Reformation Europe, by Erin Lambert. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 December 2020; 73 (3): 790–795. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2020.73.3.790 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search The evocative cover image of Erin Lambert's nuanced Singing the Resurrection: Body, Community, and Belief in Reformation Europe primes the reader for the author's narrative interventions. A reproduction of Joos van Cleve's majestic Last Judgment, painted in the 1520s, presents a formalized depiction of the saved and the damned. The death shrouds that some figures still trail make it clear that these are people raised from the dead: this is the promise of the Resurrection fulfilled. The book's titling effectively blots out the top third of the image—effacing heaven, as it were. Rather than focusing on the Christ figure, as in the original painting, the eye of the beholder is thus drawn downward to the musical intercession in the scene: the angelic heralds of the Apocalypse, trumpeting the sonic signal of the Resurrection. The human figures responding to this call are either beckoned to heaven or herded to hell.... You do not currently have access to this content.