Sacred Harp is a singular American music that started in Puritan New England, moved to the Deep South, and gradually died out. Correspondent Elizabeth Yates McNamee explores the unearthly allure of a contemporary Sacred Harp resurgence.
(Originally aired: February 3, 2001)
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