Name: Sacred Harp and Shape Note Singing
Brand: Various

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

jsp77175

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Download code: No

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2014-06-25

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Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

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4 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Various

Genre GB

R&B / Neo-Soul

Label GB

Jasmine

The Sacred Harp singing style is unique to America, treasured today both for its hauntingly attractive harmonies and its links to a seemingly lost rural past. Evolving from church singing-school organisations of the 18th century, it was and remains a community movement, with all-day singing conventions as much a social as a musical gathering, these days concentrated mainly in the Deep South. The main source for material is still B.F. White and E.J. King's 'The Sacred Harp' - first published in 1844. The term 'shape note' comes from the book's system of musical notation - symbols being used rather than the more familiar 'staff' method. Here, from its heartlands of Georgia and Alabama - but also from locations as far-flung as New York and Indiana, is a singular music for too long thrust to the sidelines. We hope to help in changing that.

Sacred Harp and Shape Note Singing

Music GB