The more than 180-year-old compilation of sacred songs uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds.

Sacred Harp singers are not historical reenactors, he said. They use their hymnals week after week. Some treat them like ...

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Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, ...

Gospel music has been a staple of worship in Wichita Falls for generations, with church services featuring gospel music every ...

Black Church is a language. The hymns, parables, wisdom expressions, and biblical narratives have combined with Black speech to create a distinctive mother tongue for those who grow up in the Black ...

The kick drum thumped. The high hat ticked. And the audience punctuated the hymn with the syncopated double clapping often heard in Black churches. Some of the congregants sang with masks over ...

They missed the handshakes and hugs of in-person fellowship, the resonant sound of the choir, the feel and smell of hymnals ... acute when it comes to the Black church, according to Pew Research ...

His church is not alone, as other predominantly Black congregations are taking similar ... Why Sacred Harp singers are revamping an iconic pre-Civil War hymnal Dolly Parton leans on her faith ...