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, ...

It was rarely used during church services. Instead, the hymnal was part of the social ... post-Reconstruction, Black singers founded their own conventions, he said. “The Sacred Harp ...

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 ...

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

Amid the rapid gentrification of central East Austin, historically Black and Hispanic ... the center aisle of the church to start the service. All would break into a hymn, seemingly always the ...

It was rarely used during church services. Instead, the hymnal was part of the social ... post-Reconstruction, Black singers founded their own conventions, he said. “The Sacred Harp ...

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