{"product_id":"9780226109633","title":"I Belong to This Band, Hallelujah!: Community, Spirituality, and Tradition among Sacred Harp Singers","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Sacred Harp choral singing tradition originated in the American South in the mid-nineteenth century, spread widely across the country, and continues to thrive today. Sacred Harp isn’t performed but participated in, ideally in large gatherings where, as the a cappella singers face each other around a hollow square, the massed voices take on a moving and almost physical power. \u003ci\u003eI Belong to This Band, Hallelujah!\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid portrait of several Sacred Harp groups and an insightful exploration of how they manage to maintain a sense of community despite their members’ often profound differences.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Laura Clawson’s research took her to Alabama and Georgia, to Chicago and Minneapolis, and to Hollywood for a Sacred Harp performance at the Academy Awards, a potent symbol of the conflicting forces at play in the twenty-first-century incarnation of this old genre. Clawson finds that in order for Sacred Harp singers to maintain the bond forged by their love of music, they must grapple with a host of difficult issues, including how to maintain the authenticity of their tradition and how to carefully negotiate the tensions created by their disparate cultural, religious, and political beliefs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084118999280,"sku":"9780226109633","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226109633_p0.jpg?v=1763673912","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226109633","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}