{"product_id":"songs-from-the-b-f-white-sacred-harp","title":"Songs From The B. F. White Sacred Harp","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Wiregrass Singers' Dewey Williams began learning the shape-note tradition in his childhood. He studied under Judge Jackson, who authored the landmark 1934 hymnbook The Colored Sacred Harp. In 1971, Williams formally organized The Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers to preserve the music full-time. This unified troupe began touring nationally and leading workshops, which ultimately launched them onto stages at the Smithsonian and Newport folk festivals up until Williams' passing in 1995 when the group disbanded. The African-American Sacred Harp tradition in the Wiregrass region has steeply declined since the start of the 21st century, due to an aging generation of singers, and today it is largely sustained through archival preservation and occasional multi-book singing meetups.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis raw recording, made at the Union Grove Baptist Church, Ozark in mid-April 1993 finds the group singing from B. F. White’s The Sacred Harp (1844), which together with his brother-in-law William Walker’s Southern Harmony (1835) formed the musical backbone of generations of Southern music and Southern musical styles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n[[Selling Points]]\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOnly available on cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecorded at the Union Grove Baptist Church, Ozark in mid-April 1993\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMusical backbone of generations of Southern music and Southern musical styles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n[[Catalog Number]]DEATH133[[Artist]]Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Songs From The B. F. White Sacred Harp \/ Album \/ Cassette","offer_id":48437934162165,"sku":"DEATH133","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/5050580877771.jpg?v=1784253730","url":"https:\/\/lightintheattic.net\/products\/songs-from-the-b-f-white-sacred-harp","provider":"Light in the Attic","version":"1.0","type":"link"}