Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...Nancy Casey, mother-in-law to the founder of the Wiregrass Singers, Dewey Williams. Casey mentioned a white man from Georgia who once came to teach singing schools.32Doris Dyen, electronic mail correspondence...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...the Sacred Harp. (From Wikipedia) Sacred Harp "Rudiments" from 1911 edition of the Original Sacred Harp. Image courtesy of Emory University Pitts Theology Library. What gives Sacred Harp...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...in "Providence." Originally published in The Sacred Harp (Sacred Harp Publishing Company, 1991 edition). Courtesy of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company. Recording the Hollow Square For singers and scholars, Sacred...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Sacred Harp singings. That Sacred Harp music came to be sung in Ireland in 2011 is both surprising and characteristic. While hundreds of Sacred Harp singings and conventions are held...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...on the expanding Sacred Harp minutes database, see "Sacred Harp Minutes: Querying Sacred Harp's Sonic Past through the Minutes of Sacred Harp Singings, 1945–2016," 2017, http://fasolaminutes.org/. We hope this marks...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...and social event emphasizing participation, not performance, where people sing from a tunebook called The Sacred Harp, printed in music notation using four shaped notes. Since the nineteenth century, Sacred...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
Blog Post Detail of Ashley's Sack, Charleston, South Carolina, 2016. Photograph courtesy of the Middleton Place Foundation. "Ashley's Sack" is among the most resonant and enigmatic artifacts on display in...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...separations to both worker choice and southern custom. He notes that southern workers called the foreigners "dagos" and "sheenies." Men called one camp "the dago camp" for its large Italian...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
In November of 2011 I wrote for Southern Spaces on the first Ireland Sacred Harp Convention, a key marker and catalyst of the growing presence of Sacred Harp singing in...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...see Jefferson R. Cowie, Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999). Wal-Mart, the most successful corporation operating in the global economy of the twenty-first...