Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism

by Kiri Miller

Book Overview

A compelling account of contemporary Sacred Harp singing, Traveling Home describes how this vibrant musical tradition 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 more than 150 years. In the wake...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252077571
• ISBN13: 9780252077579
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"