Shape-note singing
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
John F. Smith Traditional Music Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0006 SAA 005
Abstract
John F. Smith taught in the Berea College Normal School. As part of his Composition and Rhetoric course, Smith asked students to write down the names of banjo and fiddle songs and tunes known to them in their home districts of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. The results are a large, varied body of material that includes ballads, songs, fiddle and banjo tunes, and games. Several students also included lists of musical instruments present in their home communities and descriptions of music...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1940; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1940
Ware Brothers Collection
Collection — 1
Identifier: BCA 0153 SAA 157
Abstract
William Chester (1920-2012), known as “Chet,” and Donald (1921- ), or “Don,” Ware were born in Argyle, Casey County, Kentucky. They grew up in an atmosphere of country gospel music and singing and were taught to sing and play guitar by their father Virgil Ware who was a shape-note gospel singer and teacher. The two brothers performed together since the late 1920s and, after hearing Delmore Brothers for the first time in 1933, began covering Delmore Brothers songs.
The duo’s career...
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