Fasola: Fifty-three Shape Note Folk Hymns: All Day Sacred Harp Singing at Stewart's Chapel in Houston, Mississippi

[Will Fitzgerald]

What can anyone tell me of this compilation: "Fasola: Fifty-three Shape Note Folk Hymns: All Day Sacred Harp Singing at Stewart's Chapel in Houston, Mississippi," which I happened upon at Amazon.com?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000S9C1UA/

— Will Fitzgerald

[Berkley Moore]

It was recorded by folklorist Frederick Ramsay in 1969 as a two-LP set for Folkways Records, and is currently available on CD from Smithsonian Folkways.  The album title is somewhat of a misnomer as the recording contains only 52 tunes, with "Cowper" listed in the album notes as being one of the recording's tunes, but that tune is not actually in the album. Berkley. --- On Wed, 5/16/12, Will Fitzgerald <will.fi...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Warren Steel]

At 12:44 AM 5/16/2012, Will Fitzgerald wrote:
>What can anyone tell me of this compilation: "Fasola: Fifty-three Shape
>Note Folk Hymns: All Day Sacred Harp Singing at Stewart's Chapel in
>Houston, Mississippi," which I happened upon at Amazon.com?

It was recorded by Frederic and Amelia Ramsey and
issued by Asch-Folkways in 1970. Minutes from that
period in Mississippi are pretty spotty, and I've
never been able to find minutes of that particular
singing, though some of the leaders can be identified:
Tom Harper, S.T. Hawkins, and Arch Stewart.
When the set appeared I was living in the Boston
area, and hearing it was a revelation. It's described
at http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/resource/chap07.html



http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/resource/chap07.html
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Warren Steel mu...@olemiss.edu
Professor of Music University of Mississippi
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/

[Wade Kotter]

This very interesting album is also available through Smithsonian Global Sound, a music streaming database from Alexander Street Press which is available at many academic libraries. You can't download the album but you can stream the entire album or individual tracks to your computer, iPad, iPhone, or Android device. So if you have access to databases at an academic library I recommend that you check it out. Three other Folkways recordings described in the resource guide are also available through Smithsonian Global Sound:

Old Harp Singing performed by Old Harp Singers of Eastern Tennessee

New England Harmony: A Collection of Early American Choral Music

Nineteenth Century American Sacred Music

Unfortunately, Harry Smith's "Anthology of American Folk Music" is not available on Smithsonian Global Sounds.

Wade Kotter

South Ogden, UT

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