“FARTHER
ALONG” CONFERENCE 07-018
MATERIALS
Physical Description:
.42 L. F. Manuscripts
Digital
photographs and PowerPoint presentations
6 Books;
6 CDs
10 DAT;
12 DVD-Rs
Dates:
April
4-5, 2008
RESTRICTIONS:
Permissions
for reproduction of audio materials for research are held in the collection
control files. Standard copyright regulations apply.
Provenance:
These
materials were generated for and by the conference titled, “Farther Along: A
conference on the Southern Gospel Convention-Singing Tradition” sponsored
by the CPM. The audio CDs were recorded during the conference presentations by
CPM Manager of Media Collections Martin Fisher. Digital images were taken by
Grover Baker, CPM Librarian, and Paul Wells, Director. The manuscripts were sent
to the Center by the participants after the conference at the request of the Archivist, Lucinda Cockrell. The song books
and commercial CDs were donated by the participant artists.
Scope and content:
This
collection consists of manuscript materials including printed papers, PowerPoint
presentations, pamphlets, brochures documenting presentations and events from
the CPM “Farther Along : A conference on the Southern Gospel
Convention-Singing Tradition” conference held April 4-5, 2008. Also included
are digital images, gospel song books, hymnals, and CDs given by participant
artists. Martin Fisher, CPM Manager of Media Collections processed the recorded
sessions from the conference and the resulting CDs and DVDs are available for
research purposes, along with logs of conference sessions and singings.
Please
see conference program for more information on individual session papers.
Location:
The
audio tapes and CDs are filed first by media type, then by log number with
other audio visual manuscripts. Digital files are archived on the CPM server
and printed copies are available for research in the manuscripts. The
manuscripts are filed by accession number, arranged chronologically by
presentation order and filed among the manuscript collections by accession number.
Session recordings on CD and DVDs are located in the audio manuscripts. Books
and commercial CDs were dispersed and filed in respective categories of special
collection materials, searchable in InMagic.
Related Materials:
The
Center holds other gospel-related manuscript collections, such as the Anna J.
Strohman gospel songbook collection (90-010), Southern Gospel Convention Singing Collection
(06-018), John A. McClung
Hartford Music Company Collection (04-008), George B. Holsinger Shape
Note Gospel Music Collection (89-045), Singing School Collection (06-008), and M.H. Woodard Manuscript and Gospel
Songbook Collection (01-023). These may be searched through the InMagic Archives database. Other collections containing
gospel materials may also be searched through InMagic,
such as the rare book, sheet music, iconographic, performance, and trade
catalog collections.
Subject Headings:
Gospel
music
Shape-note
singing.
Conference
& symposium papers
Folder/box
list:
Box 1
Folder 1 Pamphlets
and program
Folder 2 ”Conference Overview: Why We are
Here,”
Stephen Shearon,
School of Music, MTSU
Folder 3 ”The R. E. Winsett
Music Company: A Case Study in Ma and Pa
Publishing,”
Mel R. Wilhoit,
Folder 4 “The
Church Hymnal: A Legacy of the Convention Song,”
Donald LeRoy,
Lee University
Folder 5 “Varying Degrees of Similitude:
Stylistic Homogeneity and Change in the
Stamps-Baxter
Songs of Luther Presley,”
Gregory Straughn, Abilene Christian University.
Folder 6 “Skylite
Recording Company: The Legacy of Stamps,”
Theodore E. Fuller,
Collierville, Tennessee.
Folder
7 “The Gaitherization
of Convention Singing” (PowerPoint paper).
Douglas Harrison, Florida Gulf
Coast University
Folder 8
“Music Is a Science: The Career
and Legacy of Shaped-Note Music Teacher W.
E.
Ledbetter, Overton County, Tennessee,”
Steve
Hoskins, Trevecca Nazarene University/MTSU
Folder 9
“Who Will Sing One Song for Me”:
Tracing Shape-Note Singing Traditions in
Rural
Tennessee – (PowerPoint paper)
Holly Garrett Anthony, Tennessee
Technological University
Folder 10
“Aldine Keiffer,
Southern Gospel, and Hillbilly Music: The Case of ‘The Grave
on the Green Hillside’” –(PowerPoint paper)
Stephen Shearon,
MTSU
Folder 11
“From Hartford to Honky-Tonks to
the ‘Hood’: The continuing Cultural Journey
of Albert E. Brumley’s ‘I’ll Fly
Away’”
Kevin Kehrberg,
University of Kentucky
Folder 12
“The Reasons We Sing: The Reported
Health Benefits of Regular and Active
Participation
in Southern Gospel Convention Singing” (PowerPoint paper)
Susan E. Abbott,
Folder 13
“The Family of God: The
Transmission of ‘Family Values’ through the Gendered
Conventions
of Southern Gospel Singing Conventions
Suzanne R.
Lee, Saint Louis University
Folder 14
“The Art of Convention-Style Piano
Accompaniment,” (Note:
paper not received)
Tracey
Phillips, MTSU
Folder 15
“Digitizing on a Shoestring: The
Max Morris Southern Gospel Music Collection,”
(PowerPoint
paper)
Jacquelyn A. Royal, Lee
University
Folder 16
“Southern Gospel Holdings at the
Center for Popular Music,”
(PowerPoint
paper)
Paul F. Wells and Grover Baker,
MTSU
Folder 17 “Variations
in Style and Repertory of Seven-Shape Conventions in Alabama,”
(PowerPoint
paper)
Steve Grauberger,
Alabama State Council on the Arts
Folder 18
“The Speer
Family: The “First Family” of Gospel Music,”
Shawn Degenhart, Peoria, Illinois.
Folder
19 Audio logs of conference
sessions
Folder
20 Accompanying materials to CD:
“Traditional Musics of Alabama, vol. 2.”
Folder
21 Photographs – Thumbnails of
digital images
Folder
22 Release Agreements
Separated Materials:
Books
The Church Hymnal,
Sing It Out!, Jeffress/Phillips
Music
Shape Notes: Songs of the Gospel,
Open the Windows: New Gospel
Songs,
Cumberland Valley Music Company (Donated by Eugene McCammon)
Zion’s Praises by Aaron Z. Weaver, Weaver Music
Company
The “Church Hymnal” (1951): A
Shape-Note Hymnal of the
A
Dissertation presented for the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree, The University of
Memphis, Donald Todd LeRoy, May 2004.
CDs
Some of My Favorite Piano
Arrangements by
Sidney Ryan Hicks
The Ledbetters:
What a Singing
Old Time Religion: Piano Solo
Favorites by Tracey Phillips
Tracey Phillips Favorite Hymns
Shape Notes: Songs of the Gospel,
Sing It Out!, Jeffress/Phillips
Music
Traditional Musics
of
LPC
June 2008 (updated July 2011)