Judge Jackson and the Colored Sacred Harp [With CD]

ISBN-13: 9780817315108 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 272 str.

Joe Dan Boyd

Opis

Religious songs written by and for African Americans in the style of the venerable shape note book, The Sacred Harp. Born in 1883, Jackson took a keen interest in fa-sol-la singing as a teenager. Such singing derives originally from colonial New England singing schools designed to teach musical note-reading in order to improve congregational singing. It took root in the South as its popularity declined elsewhere and was well-established in the Wiregrass region of southeast Alabama in both black and white communities when Jackson discovered it. Around 1930, Jackson determined to compile a book for the benefit of African American singers. A selection of songs from the Colored Sacred Harp appears on a CD enclosed with the book. In addition to 25 recordings made or collected by Boyd, the CD features a recording made at a Sacred Harp singing by folklorist John Work in 1938 and one made by Jackson and family at a coin-operated recording booth in Dothan in 1950. "