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Campbell, Gavin James (Spring 1997), "Old Can Be Used Instead of New: Shape-Note Singing and the Crisis of Modernity in the New South, 1880–1910", Journal of American Folklore (article), 110 (436): 169– 88, doi:10.2307/541811, JSTOR 541811 investigates the internal debate among shape note singers at the end of the 19th century and beginning ...
Cohen noted how Chandler's vocals are reflective of the Appalachian idiosyncratic style of "extended phrasing", and ending lines with a falsetto "yip". [2] British Folklorist Cecil Sharp wrote in his research of Appalachian singers: The habit of dwelling arbitrarily upon certain notes of the melody, generally the weaker accents.
In 2010, the del Re family of Boyce, Virginia, who had been singing from publications of Ananias Davisson for 25 years, were joined by other singers who reviewed thousands of nineteenth-century shape-note songs from over seventy sources, as well as new compositions. [22] Members of the Music Committee composed alto parts when they were lacking.
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Joseph Funk's tombstone in Singers Glen, Virginia Funk's home in Singers Glen Joseph Funk (1778–1862) was a pioneer American music teacher, publisher, and an early American composer . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He invented a shape note system in 1851 for the Harmonia Sacra .
A seventh-generation ballad singer, storyteller, and claw-hammer banjo player, Sheila Kay Adams was born and raised in the Sodom Laurel community of Madison County, North Carolina, an area renowned for its unbroken tradition of unaccompanied singing of traditional southern Appalachian ballads that dates back to the early Scots/Irish and English Settlers in the mid-17th century.
Mary Jane Prince Queen (February 20, 1914 – June 29, 2007) was an American ballad singer and banjo player. She was once called a "walking archive of mountain music" for her knowledge of the traditional music of Appalachia.
Leah Song (born Leah Smith) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumental musician, storyteller, poet, artist, and activist known for her role as one of the two frontsisters of Rising Appalachia — with younger sister Chloe Smith — incorporating sultry vocals, rhythm, banjo, guitar, ballads, dance, spoken-word and storytelling into her work.