Paul Hammond

Dean and Professor of Music,
Warren M. Angell College of Fine Arts

Raley Chapel 202W
405.878.2305

OBU Box 61276
500 W. University
Shawnee, OK 74804

As Dean of Warren M. Angell College of Fine Arts since 1986, Dr. Paul Hammond has taught such classes as Church Music and Music History and published a variety of articles on such subjects as "Hymns and Hymnody in Revivalism," "The Christian Lyre and Its Influences on American Hymnody" and on shape-note hymnody in America. Dean Hammond is also a deacon, Sunday school teacher, trustee, and choir member at First Baptist Church in Shawnee. His wife, Anne Hammond, is an Associate Professor of English and Language, along with Language and Literature Division Chair for the College of Arts and Sciences at OBU. He has served as Managing Director for the Oklahoma Alliance for Liturgy and the Arts, Program Chair for the Da Vinci Institute, an evaluator for the National Association of Schools of Music, and a member of the Downtown Shawnee Advisory Board.


Educational Background:
B.A., Morehead State University
M.C.M., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
D.M.A., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Dissertation: “Music in Urban Revivalism in the Northern United States, 1800-1835”

Courses Taught:
CHMU 2102: Introduction to Church Music
Corporate Worship I and II
Aesthetics

Selected Publications and/or Professional Activities:
"Hymns and Hymnody in Revivalism," Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America, ed. Michael McClymond, 2006.
"The Christian Lyre and Its Influences on American Hymnody," Minds and Hearts in Praise of God: Essays and Hymns in Honor of Hugh T. McElrath, Providence Publishers, 2004
"From Parlor to Pew: Borrowings in Nineteenth-Century Hymnody," presented to Musical Intersections, Toronto, Canada, November, 2000
"Educating Musicians for the New Millennium," presented to the International Music Council, Petra, Jordan, September, 1999

"Parody in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Hymnody," We’ll Shout and Sing Hosanna, ed. David Music, Ft. Worth: Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1998