A compelling account of contemporary Sacred Harp singing, Traveling
Home describes how this vibrant musical tradition brings together
Americans of widely divergent religious and political beliefs.
Named after the most popular of the nineteenth-century shape-note
tunebooks--which employed an innovative notation system to teach
singers to read music--Sacred Harp singing has been part of rural
Southern life for more than 150 years. In the wake of the folk
revival of the 1950s and '60s, this participatory musical tradition
attracted new singers from all over America. All-day "singings"
from The Sacred Harp now take place across the country, creating a
diverse and far-flung musical community. Meanwhile, the advent of
internet discussion boards and increasing circulation of
singer-produced recordings have changed the nature of traditional
transmission and sharpened debates about Sacred Harp as an
"authentic" form of southern musical expression. Blending
historical scholarship with wide-ranging fieldwork, Kiri Miller
presents an engagingly written study of a musical movement that
some have christened "a quintessential expression of American
democracy."
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