Article: Mission and Music: Jabem Traditional Music and the Development of Lutheran Hymnody.

At the age of 22, Heinrich Zahn left his home in Neuendettelsau (Bavaria) to become a Lutheran missionary in the Finschhafen area of what was then German New Guinea. He arrived in 1902 and stayed for 30 years. During his life, he devoted himself not only to evangelical work among the Jabem and Bukawac peoples, but also to music. His unusual story, 'Mission and Music' (pp. 3-355), begins not with an account of a young man's missionary zeal but with a heartfelt description of the 'musical deprivations' he suffered after leaving Europe (pp. 5-21).

Zahn was evidently a gifted musician - proficient as a singer and as a performer on various instruments - as well as a ...

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