Traveling home : Sacred harp singing and American pluralism / Kiri Miller

Author:: Miller, Kiri
Published:: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
Copyright Date:: ©2008
Physical Description:: xvi, 245 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 24 cm.

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Series:

Music in American life

Contents:

Introducion: In search of tradition -- A venture to the field -- Travels to the center of the square -- "Well, you'll learn" : transmission, affiliation, and competence -- "Speaking may relieve thee" : texted events and eventful texts -- "A strange land and a peculiar people" : mediating local color -- "At home in transience" : traveling culture and the politics of nostalgia.

Subject(s):

Sacred harp
Shape-note singing—United States—History and criticism
Pluralism

ISBN:

9780252032141 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252032144 (cloth : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-234) and index.
Includes discography: pages [xiii]-xiv.

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