Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
This essay explores the history, geography, and contemporary practices of Sacred Harp—one form of a cappella, shape-note music—in the US South. The roots of Sacred Harp extend back to an eighteenth-century New England singing-school movement that spread the rudiments of choral music south and west w...
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| Language: | English |
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Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
2007-06-01
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| Series: | Southern Spaces |
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| Online Access: | https://southernspaces.org/node/42867 |