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Sacred Harp Singers

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Sacred Harp Singers. © NFTS

Director Mark Brice
Country/Production UK
Release 1984
Length 85 mins
Format Colour / DVD or VHS / PAL / All region
Location USA, Sand Mountain, Alabama / America
Ethnic Group North Americans

Order No RAI-200.221
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A moving portrait of harp singers Leonard and Mazine Lacy. Sacred harp music is a kind of harmonised plainsong practised in rural America. This film was shot in Sand Mountain, Alabama, and is recommended for Ethnomusicology in particular.

 

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