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What defines southern music to me is its common historical influences. For example, one of these influences would surely have to be Sacred Harp and the shape note tradition. As a Sacred Harp singer, I often hear its echoes in contemporary southern music. I am sure there are others with a background in some other historically significant southern musical form who also hear echoes of that music in southern music today. I don't believe anyone whose musical ear has not been tuned to such influences could be said to be within that southern musical tradition, no matter how deep their appreciation for it. Many, if not most Sacred Harp singers today are no longer southerners, and although their liking for it runs deep in many cases, it is frequently obvious that it is based on a different construct of what it is musically and sociologically, and yes, religiously as well. They seek to mimic what they hear without a deeper understanding that is common to most southern practitioners. Terre Schill Lockhart, Texas ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the EV1 webmail system at mail.ev1.net
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