Fasola: 53 Shape-Note Folk Hymns: Recorded at an All-Day Sacred Harp Singing, Stewart's Chapel, Houston, Mississippi, by Amelia and Frederic Ramsey, Jr. With Historical Notes on the Sources of Shape-Note Singing by Amelia Ramsey
Various
- Artist
- Various
- Label
- Asch Mankind Series
- Catalog number
- AHM 4151
- Format
- LP · Album
- Country
- US
- Released
- 1970
- Genre
- Folk, World, & Country
What’s on it
Fasola: 53 Shape-Note Folk Hymns: Recorded at an All-Day Sacred Harp Singing, Stewart's Chapel, Houston, Mississippi, by Amelia and Frederic Ramsey, Jr. With Historical Notes on the Sources of Shape-Note Singing by Amelia Ramsey has 17 tracks.
- A1Liverpool, Delight, Schenectady
- A2Bear Creek, Harmony, World Unknown
- A3Stratfield, Arbacoochie, Save Lord, or We Perish
- A4Soar Away, Cusseta
- A5Travelling On, Fillmore
- B1Providence, Gospel Trumpet, Florida, Columbiana, Happy Home
- B2Southwell, Concord, Rees, New Hope, The Resurrection Day
- B3Idumea, Mear, My Brightest Day
- C1New Jordan, Alabama, Morning Sun
- C2Exhortation, Sinners Friend, Coston
- C3Georgia, Cheves, Invitation
- C4Eternal Home, Green Street, The Spirit Shall Return
- C5Christian Soldier, The Good Old Way, Cowper
- D1Christmas ANthem, Jerusalem, Exhilaration
- D2Canaan's Land, Sweet Rivers, Easter Anthem
- D3Notes Almost Divine, Manchester, O Come Away
- D4Murillo's Lesson, Calvary, Nashville
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Where it came from
Released in 1970 on the Asch Mankind Series, this field recording captures an all-day Sacred Harp singing event held at Stewart's Chapel in Houston, Mississippi. Recorded by documentarians Amelia and Frederic Ramsey, Jr., the album serves as an ethnographic archive of shape-note singing, a uniquely American tradition that utilizes four-syllable notation to make musical sight-reading accessible to congregants. The recording was produced to preserve the communal, robust vocal style of the deep South at a time when traditional folkways were increasingly being subsumed by mainstream cultural shifts.
The album includes extensive historical notes written by Amelia Ramsey, which contextualize the technical nuances of the Fa-Sol-La notation system and the sociological importance of the singing conventions themselves. Design-wise, the record reflects the scholarly, minimalist aesthetic typical of Moses Asch’s Folkways and Asch imprints, prioritizing the integrity of the archival audio over commercial packaging. Upon release, it was lauded by musicologists and folk enthusiasts for its raw, unvarnished presentation of a living musical heritage that had remained largely insulated from the commercial music industry.
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