A new edition of “The Sacred Harp,” a Christian hymnal first published in 1844, is being released this year. It helps carry ...

“The Sacred Harp” is still sung in its hollow square formation. Singers organize into four voice parts: treble, alto, tenor and bass. Each group takes a side, facing an opening in the center where a ...

Among the earliest recordings of the music of Trinidad and Tobago in 1914 thereabouts were the rhythms and chants of the Orisas, Shango Baptists and the Spiritual Shouter Baptists. Before then and ...