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Folklife Database: Recording of the Florida-Alabama Progressive Seven Shape Note Singing Covention
Item Type:
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Sound
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| Series Number/Title |
S1576 |
| Container |
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| Item |
Audio recording |
| Item ID Number |
T83-82, T83-83, T83-84, T83-85; T81-21 - T81-22 |
| Item Title |
Recording of the Florida-Alabama Progressive Seven Shape Note Singing Covention |
| Program/Event |
Florida Record Project: Drop On Down in Florida
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| Date/Date Range |
05/18/1980 |
| Collector/Fieldworker |
DeVane, Dwight
Dyen, Doris
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| Tradition Bearer |
Florida-Alabama Progressive Seven-Shape Note Singing Convention
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| Ethnicity/Nationality |
African American
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| Genre/Occupation |
Singers
Shape note singers
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| Title of Work |
Prayer (T83-82)
I Need Her
Amazing Grace
Scripture Reading
When the Roll is Called Up Yonder
My Day of Joy is Coming (T83-83)
Amazing Grace
Pearly Gates
Press On
Unidentified song
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Jesus Knows About It (T83-84)
This Little Light of Mine
It Must Have Been Him
What a Great Day That Will be
How Beautiful Heaven Must
Just a Little More Time
Where Could I Go But to the Lord (T83-85)
Prayer
May the Work That I Have Done Speak For Me (T81-21)
Scripture Reading
He Is Sweet I Know
Inside the Pearly Gates
Moving Along With My Savior
Where Could I Go But to the Lord (T81-22)
Press On
My Day of Joy is Coming
My Blessed Beautiful Home
When Jesus Was Passing By
On My Way to Gloryland
God Is Gonna Set This World of Fire
I Laid My Burden Down
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| 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
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| Place Name |
Crestview (Fla.)
Okaloosa County (Fla.)
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| Corporate/Conference Name |
Florida Folklife Program
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| General Note/Comment Field |
Six reel to reel recordings.
The convention was founded in 1928, and performs four times a year. 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.
The recording of the Florida-Alabama Progressive Seven Shape Note Singing Covention can be heard on the Podcasts page.
The songs "Where Could I Go But to the Lord" and "Amazing Grace" by
the Progressive Seven Shaped Note Singers are available online. |
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