Sacred Harp singers are not historical reenactors, he said. They use their hymnals week after week. Some treat them like ...

The Sacred Harp” is a pre-Civil War compilation of sacred songs that uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares ...

Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, ...

Instead, the hymnal was part of the social fabric of the ... At the museum, Rollins carefully turned the pages of her first edition copy of “The Sacred Harp,” and explained how the tradition ...