THE STORY

of the

Sacred Harp
1844-1944


A Book of Religious Folk Song
as an American Institution

By
GEORGE PULLEN JACKSON
Nashville
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PRESS
1944



THE SACRED HARP
1844-1944
The Sacred Harp
Photograph of 1847 Imprint of First Edition
Courtesy the Library of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky.



CONTENTS

Old Baptist Music
How the Sacred Harp Came to Be and How It Grew
Some Hearers Don't Like It. Why?
The Singers
The Turn of the Century
America Discovers Its Own Songs


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