Traveling Home

ISBN: 9780252032141

出版社: Univ of Illinois Pr

出版年: 2007-11

页数: 256

定价: $ 53.11

装帧: HRD

内容简介

A compelling account of the vibrant musical tradition of Sacred Harp singing, "Traveling Home" describes how song brings together Americans of widely divergent religious and political beliefs. Named after the most popular of the nineteenth-century shape-note tunebooks - which employed an innovative notation system to teach singers to read music - Sacred Harp singing has been part of rural Southern life for over 150 years. In the wake of the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s, this participatory musical tradition attracted new singers from all over America. All-day "singings" from "The Sacred Harp" now take place across the country, creating a diverse and far-flung musical community. Blending historical scholarship with wide-ranging fieldwork, Kiri Miller presents an engagingly written study of this important music movement.