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The Makers of the Sacred Harp
David Warren Steel
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Description for The Makers of the Sacred Harp
Paperback. A comprehensive guide to the texts and tunes of an American musical tradition Series: Music in American Life. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGC8; AVGD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 574.
This authoritative reference work investigates the roots of the Sacred Harp, the central collection of the deeply influential and long-lived southern tradition of shape-note singing. Where other studies of the Sacred Harp have focused on the sociology of present-day singers and their activities, David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan concentrate on the regional culture that produced the Sacred Harp in the nineteenth century and delve deeply into history of its authors and composers. They trace the sources of every tune and text in the Sacred Harp, from the work of B. F. White, E. J. King, and their west ... Read more
This authoritative reference work investigates the roots of the Sacred Harp, the central collection of the deeply influential and long-lived southern tradition of shape-note singing. Where other studies of the Sacred Harp have focused on the sociology of present-day singers and their activities, David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan concentrate on the regional culture that produced the Sacred Harp in the nineteenth century and delve deeply into history of its authors and composers. They trace the sources of every tune and text in the Sacred Harp, from the work of B. F. White, E. J. King, and their west ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Condition
New
Series
Music in American Life
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252077609
SKU
V9780252077609
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About David Warren Steel
David Warren Steel is an associate professor of music and southern culture at the University of Mississippi. Richard H. Hulan is an independent scholar of American folk hymnody.
Reviews for The Makers of the Sacred Harp
"Hymnologists and sacred harp singers will delight in this book. Highly recommended."
Choice "An important book that adds substance and clarity to existing research on the early decades of The Sacred Harp. . . . Highly recommended.
Notes "An indispensable source for those studying the music of the South."
Journal of Southern Religion
Choice "An important book that adds substance and clarity to existing research on the early decades of The Sacred Harp. . . . Highly recommended.
Notes "An indispensable source for those studying the music of the South."
Journal of Southern Religion