White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands: The Story of the Fasola Folk, Their Songs, Singings, and "Buckwheat Notes"

by George Pullen Jackson

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

444 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1966

About the author

1874-1953

Reviews

[Lynnette · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had no idea the importance of shape-note singing and it's influence. This book gives a clear history of American folk music, it's stars, books, schools, rise, and fall. Since Jackson wrote this book in the 1930's he was speaking not only from first hand experiences with shape-note sings, but also accounts from children and grand-children of the founders of the system. This book really makes me want to implement shape-note singing in our church's youth choir now!

[Jordan St. Stier · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very strongly researched and supplemented with personal accounts- highly interesting text.

[Leah Coffin · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lot about this book was problematic: the casual racism, the unchallenged assumptions, the obvious biases of the author towards this or that type of music and/or notation. That said, this is a valuable artifact with vivid descriptions of shape note singing and conventions before they got "discovered."