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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

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...

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...