Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing

Karl Musser, Map of Okefenokee Swamp, 2007. This essay explores "Hoboken-style" Sacred Harp singing of the Okefenokee region of southeast Georgia and northeast Florida. It considers the history of this tradition, distinctive characteristics of this variant of Sacred Harp, and how &...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laurie Kay Sommers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emory Center for Digital Scholarship 2010-08-01
Series:Southern Spaces
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Online Access:https://southernspaces.org/node/42823