Testimony at United Sacred Harp Convention

Audio file

Date recorded: September 12, 1959
Contributor(s): Performer: Smith Walton, Joyce; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Subject(s):
Genre: talk/ambience
Culture: Anglo-American, Southern U.S.
Instruments: voice
Setting: 56th Annual United Sacred Harp Musical Association Convention, Corinth Baptist Church
Location: Fyffe, Dekalb County, Alabama, United States
Physical form: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T879
Track Number: 12
Archive ID: T879R12
Note: Alan Lomax: "dist[ortion]" Joyce Smith: "You people will never know what it's meant to me […] coming and singing your hearts out for me. Not only for me, but for everybody. All of us has worked hard. You know this is something we can all enjoy. A lot of times a preacher gets and preach and it don't seem like it has any effect on anybody, but you let a band of God's children get together and get singing, people's gonna feel it. There's nothing in the world any prettier than singing to me… [more]" Unidentified man responds: "We enjoyed that very much, Miss Joyce. That's worth a big sermon or a big singin'."
Transcript:
Belongs to: Fyffe 9/59
About the session: Recordings from the 56th Annual Convention of the United Sacred Harp Musical Association, held at Corinth Baptist Church, in Fyffe, Alabama. Leman Brown, chairman. The numbers following the songs refer to their page numbers in the Sacred Harp. Often the name listed as "lead" is not the leader of the song, but the person who has picked the selection.
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