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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

Review Cover of David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan's The Makers of the Sacred Harp, 2010. Shape-note singing from The Sacred Harp tunebook is one of the most vibrant...

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"

...Europe. In September of 2012, I returned to Europe to attend three Sacred Harp events: the seventeenth United Kingdom Sacred Harp Convention, the oldest Sacred Harp convention in Europe; the first...