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Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folksong
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The Sacred Harp, a tunebook that first appeared in 1844, has stood as a model of early American musical culture for most of this century. Tunebooks such as this, printed in shape notes for public singing and singing schools, followed the New England tradition of singing hymns and Psalms from printed music. Nineteeth-century Americans were inundated by such books, but only the popularity of The Sacred Harp has endured throughout the twentieth century.With this tunebo… More >>
Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folksong
If You Don’t Go, Don’t Hinder Me: The African American Sacred Song Tradition
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How do you survive leaving everything you know to try to reconstruct your life and future in a new way? What do you carry with you on your journey to the new place? Migration looms large as a theme in twentieth-century African American life. Bernice Johnson Reagon uses this theme as a centering structure for four essays that examine different genres of African American sacred music as they manifested themselves throughout the twentieth century and within her own li… More >>
If You Don’t Go, Don’t Hinder Me: The African American Sacred Song Tradition