Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...civic community that existed in many areas prior to 1950. Sacred Harp became a symbol of the old ways with their “web of relationships, culture, and sacrality.”50Stephen A. Marini, Sacred...
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”
...gathered at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland, for the first Ireland Sacred Harp Singing Convention. A sacred, non-denominational, group singing tradition associated with the rural southeastern United States, Sacred...
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
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...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...William Cronon, "Modes of Prophecy and Production: Placing Nature in History," The Journal of American History 76, no. 4 (March 1990): 1122–31. For a discussion of Padrones and foreign contract...
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...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...of southern deindustrialization and Asian labor markets. Who makes what where, when, and why depends on a chase around the globe for cheap labor that involves overlapping waves of industrialization...