Florida-Alabama Progressive Singing Convention

Music

Singers

Shape note singing

Performing arts

Performers

A capella singers

A capella singing

Religious music

Shape note singers

Four proof sheets with 85 black and white images, plus negatives. The convention was founded in 1928, and performs four times a year. Shaped Note singing was an a capella style of church music that utilized shapes to represent notes (fa-so-la-mi) for untrained and even illiterate church members. Only four notes were used in the hymns. An old Anglican practice, English colonists first brought the tradition over to North American in the 1600s. See also S 1577, box 17, folder 114. For a recording, see reels in S1576: T83-82 through T83-85.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1577

1980-05-18

Florida Folklife Program

photographs

Still Image

S1577

17

120

P81-121 - P81-124

Florida Record Project: Drop On Down in Florida

Dyen, Doris J.

Florida-Alabama Progressive Seven-Shape Note Singing Convention

African American

290

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