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Amazing grace: the story America's most beloved song

TURNER, Steve - Personal Name;

Behind our most beloved song is a fascinating story spanning continents, cultures, and centuries. Inspired by the way "Amazing Grace" continues to change and grow in popularity, acclaimed music writer Steve Turner embarks on a journey to trace the life of the hymn, from Olney, England, where it was written by former slave trader John Newton, to tiny Plantain Island off the coast of Africa, where Newton was held captive for almost a year, to the Kentucky-Tennessee border and other parts of the South, where the hymn first began to spread.
The hymn made its way across the Atlantic to South Carolina, where the lyrics were published for the first time with a tune. Through the nineteenth century it appeared in more and more hymnals, and in the twentieth century it rose to become a gospel and folk standard, then exploded into pop music with Judy Collins's masterful 1970 a capella recording, which took over the chart

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Call Number: 248.86 TUR a
Publisher: London : Harper Collins., 2002
Collation: xxxii, 266p.; 22 cm.
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 0-06-000218-2
Classification: 248.86
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Subject(s): CHRISTIAN LIFE - PERSON IN SUFFERING
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