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Pick Yourself Up: Dorothy Fields and the American Musical by Charlotte Greenspan (review)

Pick Yourself Up: Dorothy Fields and the American Musical by Charlotte Greenspan (review) Book Reviews 507 chapters, a bibliography, and index. Steel and Hulan also provide genealogical charts of families who were primary contributors to The Sacred Harp, such as the descendants of B. F. White and the Denson and McGraw families. As both authors point out, The Sacred Harp in the present age has been given new life beyond its purely religious original framework; its tunes are sung now by those who are interested in preserving both a traditional music and in the use of that music as part of a larger sociocultural (and often gastronomic!) ritual, known simply as “a singing.” Indeed, one of the most important contributions of this work is that while an authoritative source and reference of past history and practice, it also serves as a bridge into the present world of The Sacred Harp. (Beyond this specific book, Steel keeps track of current singings, related Sacred Harp events, and provides updated information and recent articles on his own Sacred Harp website at http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/harp.html.) The Makers of the Sacred Harp illuminates the larger cultures as well as subcultures, communities, and societies involved in shape-note singing, while surveying the makers of such songs in all phases of their http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Music University of Illinois Press

Pick Yourself Up: Dorothy Fields and the American Musical by Charlotte Greenspan (review)

McClung, Bruce D.,
American Music , Volume 30 (4) – Aug 4, 2013
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Book Reviews 507 chapters, a bibliography, and index. Steel and Hulan also provide genealogical charts of families who were primary contributors to The Sacred Harp, such as the descendants of B. F. White and the Denson and McGraw families. As both authors point out, The Sacred Harp in the present age has been given new life beyond its purely religious original framework; its tunes are sung now by those who are interested in preserving both a traditional music and in the use of that music as part of a larger sociocultural (and often gastronomic!) ritual, known simply as “a singing.” Indeed, one of the most important contributions of this work is that while an authoritative source and reference of past history and practice, it also serves as a bridge into the present world of The Sacred Harp. (Beyond this specific book, Steel keeps track of current singings, related Sacred Harp events, and provides updated information and recent articles on his own Sacred Harp website at http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/harp.html.) The Makers of the Sacred Harp illuminates the larger cultures as well as subcultures, communities, and societies involved in shape-note singing, while surveying the makers of such songs in all phases of their

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American Music – University of Illinois Press

Published: Aug 4, 2013

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