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Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"A documentary about Sacred harp singing, a haunting form of a cappella, shape-note singing with deep roots in the American south. Shape-note singing has survived over 200 years tucked away from notice in the rural deep south, where, in old country churches, singers break open The sacred harp, a 160 year old shape-note hymnal which has preserved these fiercely beautiful songs which are some of the oldest in America ... includes over 4 hours of bonus...
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Bill Moyers tells the story of this song, one of the most popular pieces of music in the English language, through the people who have sung it. He also tells the story of John Newton, once the captain of an English slave ship, who came to faith after surviving a storm at sea in the eighteenth century and wrote the lyrics which across distances of time and culture have become, when set to music, a courier of the spirit to millions of people.
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