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Recording of the Pleasant Grove Mid-Union Seven Shape Note Singing Convention
Subject
Fieldwork
African Americans
Music performance
Performing arts
Singing
Shape note singing
A capella singing
Churches
Church services
Protestants
Sermons
Preachers
Christianity
Prayer
Church attendance
Gospel music
Gospel (Black)
Religion
Religious music
Singers
Shape note singers
Description
One reel to reel recording. 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. These are field recordings from the Florida Record Project. That project, along with work for the North Florida Project, resulted in the two-album recording, Drop On Down in Florida.
Source
State Archives of Florida, Series S1576
Date
1980-05-11
Contributor
Florida Folklife Program
Jerusalem A.M.E. Church (Blakely, Ga.)
Format
sound recordings
audiotape reels
Type
Sound
Identifier
a_s1576_t83-087
Series
S1576
Item ID
T83-87
Event Name
Florida Record Project: Drop On Down in Florida
Collector or Fieldworker
DeVane, Dwight
Dyen, Doris J.
Tradition Bearer
Pleasant Grove Mid-Union Seven-Shape Note Singing Convention