http://chicagoweekly.net/2009/11/04/the-sacred-harp-club-band/ All Sides of the South Side Wed, 09 May 2012 16:21:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://chicagoweekly.net/2009/11/04/the-sacred-harp-club-band/comment-page-1/#comment-17050 SH Singer Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:23:56 +0000 http://chicagoweekly.net/?p=1845#comment-17050 "Sacred Harp Club Band"? OK, weird enough, not sure what that's supposed to mean. Moving on... "Sacred Harp" did not develop in England, old or new, in the 18th century: the Sacred Harp is a tunebook that was first published in Georgia in 1844. Shape notes were used in New England in the 18th century, if that's what you're thinking of. But singing out of the Sacred Harp spread to New England in the 1970s; it didn't originate in New England in any century. No, Christian believers are not in the majority in Hyde Park, I'm pretty sure, but if the people you met at the Hyde Park singing told you that that is also the case in Sacred Harp singing in general, and in places such as the heart of traditional Sacred Harp singing in states such as Alabama, Georgia, and Texas, they don't know what they're talking about. They need to travel outside of Chicago and learn something before they generalize from their own small corner of the Sacred Harp world out to the rest of the Sacred Harp singing community. “Sacred Harp Club Band”? OK, weird enough, not sure what that’s supposed to mean. Moving on… “Sacred Harp” did not develop in England, old or new, in the 18th century: the Sacred Harp is a tunebook that was first published in Georgia in 1844. Shape notes were used in New England in the 18th century, if that’s what you’re thinking of. But singing out of the Sacred Harp spread to New England in the 1970s; it didn’t originate in New England in any century. No, Christian believers are not in the majority in Hyde Park, I’m pretty sure, but if the people you met at the Hyde Park singing told you that that is also the case in Sacred Harp singing in general, and in places such as the heart of traditional Sacred Harp singing in states such as Alabama, Georgia, and Texas, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They need to travel outside of Chicago and learn something before they generalize from their own small corner of the Sacred Harp world out to the rest of the Sacred Harp singing community.

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