NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Laura Atkinson and Justin Hicks of Louisville Public Media about shape note singing and its influence across the American musical tradition.
The archaic sound filling the historic former church sanctuary on the UAB campus echoes, hauntingly, like a whispering ghost from the past. In a 1902 building that used to be the Second Presbyterian ...
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) - On a quiet Saturday afternoon, eight people gathered in Christ Episcopal Church in Cape Girardeau to practice shape-note singing, a form of traditional music used in ...