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Singing the Sacred Harp Singing The Sacred HarpMichael Stone listens to the other side of the gospelon new recordings from The Library of Congress and The Alan Lomax Collection Present Joys(excerpt)Alan Lomax and George Pullen Jackson first documented the Sacred Harp singing tradition in a 1942 Alabama recording for the Library of Congress Archive of American Folk Song. In 1959, Lomax returned to Alabama to record the United Sacred Harp Musical Association Singing Convention. These digitally remastered re-releases reveal a genre steeped in the cultural politics of a nation continuously reinventing itself in the face of an uneasy social past and an uncertain future. In contrast with African-American sacred expressive traditions, many have seen Anglo-American religious folk song as austere and devoid of emotion. Yet against its terse, scripture-based patrimony, Sacred Harp or "shape-note" a cappella singing reveals a lyrical, rapturous spiritual passion. As such it perpetuates the insurgent vitality of rural religious song in the 18th-century British Isles, the baroque polyphony of northwestern Europe (as heard in the "fuging" counterpoint of many Sacred Harp tunes), and the dissident psalmody of the early Calvinist Reformation.Embracing those influences, New England hymnody reemerged in the late 1700s as itinerant singing-school masters helped spread an American religious revival promoting the individual's direct personal relationship with the divine, free of intervening Church authority. Using the shape-note system invented to simplify sight reading for the musically untutored masses, Sacred Harp promoted a participatory democratic ideology of individualistic faith and deliverance, setting devotional lyrics derived from psalms and other sacred sources to the familiar melodies of British and North American folk songs.Singing schools spread from New England through the Appalachians, moving westward across the Blue Ridge and the Mississippi, reaching Missouri by the 1820s. But southern rural Protestant denominations would embrace Sacred Harp most devoutly. Its collective production entailed a brilliant, ragged choral heterophony, eschewing classical harmonic refinement for the dramatic abandon of an unadorned mass articulation of personal and immediate religious experience. Hence the untrained voices of these recordings frequently break and quaver in moving personal testimonies, fervent eulogies to the dead, stirring hymns and heartfelt prayers. When these recordings were made, many worried that rural decline, urban migration and worldly temptation threatened Sacred Harp's very survival. But in testimony to its cultural vitality, Sacred Harp has undergone a latter-day revival that re-articulates an abiding national religiosity. Paradoxically, however, in gaining higher profile than ever, Sacred Harp has drawn an increasingly cosmopolitan following at least as interested in recovering a sense of personal history and secular folk heritage as in pursuing any narrowly spiritual objective.Yet Sacred Harp today expresses far more than the aesthetic nostalgia rendered to a quaint spiritual tradition in effective decline. It still enunciates a pervasive civic faith, the consecrated ideology of American individualism, proclaiming a resolute calculus of personal responsibility, eternal retribution, divine revelation and ecstatic deliverance. In the fundamentalist tenor of these millennial times, a sober prophetic choir intones the stoic certitude of a rugged, solitary nation before its anointed global mission, trampling out the wrathful vintage of almighty judgment and redemption, everywhere separating - with terrible swift sword - the chosen from the damned. Now listen to these recordings.  Library of Congress Archive of Folk CultureAlabama Sacred Harp Singers: Sacred Harp SingingThe Alan Lomax Collection: Southern JourneyVolume 9: Harp of a Thousand Strings: All Day Singing from the Sacred HarpVolume 10: And Glory Shone Around: More All Day Singing from the Sacred HarpAll three recordings have been reissued by Rounder Records (www.rounder.com)see also:The Lomax CollectionThe Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture  Sound sample: "Present Joys," from And Glory Shone Around25 second excerpt. Public Domain |
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