Traveling home
Subtitle: Sacred harp singing and American pluralism
By: Kiri Miller
Series: Music in American life
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780252032141
Subjects: Sacred harp; Shape-note singing -- United States -- History and criticism; Pluralism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-234) and index

Includes discography: p. [xiii]-xiv
Table of contents: title: Introducion: In search of tradition; title: A venture to the field; title: Travels to the center of the square; title: "Well, you'll learn" : transmission, affiliation, and competence; title: "Speaking may relieve thee" : texted events and eventful  texts; title: "A strange land and a peculiar people" : mediating local color; title: "At home in transience" : traveling culture and the politics of nostalgia