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Episodes tagged "music": 1 through 2 of 2

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  1. Singin' Billy Walker
    date 1835map SPARTANBURG, South Carolinatags Religion, music

    In a time of intense religious revival and a relatively low literacy rate, the need for easily learned music was quickly becoming necessary. Shape note singing is a type of musical notation that was used commonly throughout the rural south during the nineteenth century as a way to assist with congregational and revival hymn singing to help with just that. Ministers were becoming increasingly uneasy...

  2. Zora Neale Hurston: Impact on Music Folklore
    date 1939map Seminole, Floridatags Zora Neale Hurston, African American Folklore, music

    Music belongs to all humans. Race, size, or color does not matter. When it comes to music, all cultures come together, one voice is heard. Folklore music is a prime example of this, and Zora Neale Hurston played an extremely important role in it. Not many African Americans had the opportunity to publish any type of works, or even to express their opinions on music, but Hurston was able to and represented...