Georgia State Sacred Harp Convention 1971 New Hope Church, Villa Rica
Documentary special on shape-note singing (“Fa So La”) from the Sacred Harp, filmed by WGTV (Georgia Public Broadcasting). At 16:21, watch Hugh McGraw teach singing school to a local high-school choir. Digital transfer courtesy of P Dan Brittain. For more information: https://fasola.org/
YouTube video of lecture by David Warren Steel on his book “The Makers of the Sacred Harp”
Library of Congress: Jan 6, 2011
David Warren Steel discusses his new book, “The Makers of the Sacred Harp,” newly published by the University of Illinois Press. Speaker Biography: David Warren Steel, associate professor of music and southern culture at the University of Mississippi, has been singing in the Sacred Harp since 1972. A graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan, he edited the collected works of early American composers Stephen Jenks and Daniel Belknap. He was an editor of “The Sacred Harp,” 1991 Edition, and provided liner notes for several recordings of Sacred Harp music; he has taught at Camp Fasola, a residential singing school, and appears in the documentary film “Awake My Soul.”
