A new edition of “The Sacred Harp,” a pre-Civil War Christian hymnal first published in 1844, is being released this year. It helps carry on the more than 180-year-old shape-note American folk singing ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. For more than 200 years an American style of folk hymn singing has been kept alive in the Deep South of ...
When the great American song collector Alan Lomax travelled to the Deep South in 1959 he found a world of rural sacred song that had been hidden for generations. Inside a country church in the low red ...