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Traveling home : Sacred harp singing and American pluralism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Miller, Kiri
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
Series:	Music in American life.
Subjects:	Sacred harp. Shape-note singing > United States > History and criticism. Pluralism.

Table of Contents:

Introducion: In search of tradition
A venture to the field
Travels to the center of the square
"Well, you'll learn" : transmission, affiliation, and competence
"Speaking may relieve thee" : texted events and eventful texts
"A strange land and a peculiar people" : mediating local color
"At home in transience" : traveling culture and the politics of nostalgia.