The history of American church music is a particularly fascinating and challenging subject, if for no other reason than because of the variety of diverse religi

"The shape-note tradition first flourished in the small towns and rural areas of early America. Church-sponsored "singing schools" taught a form of musical nota

First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This authoritative reference work investigates the roots of the Sacred Harp, the central collection of the deeply influential and long-lived southern tradition