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Sounding spirit
Vernacular sacred music books published between 1850 and 1925.
More About This Collection
Date of Original
1850/1925
Location
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
Medium
music books
Type
Text
Description
Sounding Spirit: Scholarly Editions from the Southern Sacred Music Diaspora is publishing digital and print annotated facsimile editions of five influential but currently inaccessible books of sacred southern vernacular music. Sounding Spirit focuses on gospel music, spirituals, shape-note music, and lined-out hymn singing, documenting the critical role textual communities played between 1850 and 1925 in the constellation of vernacular southern sacred music genres that shaped the American popular music landscape.
Language
eng
Holding Institution
Sounding Spirit (Project)
University of Kentucky. Libraries
James E. Walker Library
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Emory University. General Libraries
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