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Traveling home : sacred harp singing and American pluralism / Kiri Miller.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3111 .M54 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Kiri.
- Series:
- Music in American life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sacred harp.
- Shape-note singing--United States--History and criticism.
- Shape-note singing.
- Pluralism.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- The participatory tradition of Sacred Harp singing fosters a diverse musical community
- Contents:
- A venture to the field
- Travels to the center of the square
- "Well, you'll learn" : transmission, affiliation, and competence
- "Speaking may relieve thee" : texted events and eventful texts
- "A strange land and a peculiar people" : mediating local color
- "At home in transience" : traveling culture and the politics of nostalgia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references ([225]-234) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252032141
- 0252032144
- OCLC:
- 162118860
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