{"id":6875,"date":"2010-04-26T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=6875"},"modified":"2010-04-26T10:27:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T17:27:58","slug":"what-i-do-in-my-spare-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=6875","title":{"rendered":"What I do in my spare time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my pastimes is singing Sacred Harp music, traditional American four-part sacred song. It is rough, loud, driving music, sort of like hardcore punk rock for church, with the same punk anyone-can-do-it ethos. The soundtrack of the video below is a live recording from last Saturday&#8217;s Golden Gate All-Day Singing (the visuals are just random photos from the same event).<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/gVeB2ZYsAA\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"320\" height=\"270\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>A little bit of explanation: (1) In Sacred Harp music, you almost always sing through each song first with four solfege syllables: fa, sol, la, and mi. Since each part is singing their own solfege syllables, this can sound like some bizarre Phillip Glass opera. (2) The music is <em>loud<\/em> &#8212; my ear were ringing by the end of the day &#8212; so to get the full effect, plug in your earphones and crank up the sound. (3) If you want to know more, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fasola.org\">www.fasola.org<\/a>. If you don&#8217;t want to know more, and instead want to run screaming in the other direction at the unpolished sound of this roots music, feel free to do so at any time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my pastimes is singing Sacred Harp music, traditional American four-part sacred song. It is rough, loud, driving music, sort of like hardcore punk rock for church, with the same punk anyone-can-do-it ethos. The soundtrack of the video below is a live recording from last Saturday&#8217;s Golden Gate All-Day Singing (the visuals are just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[476],"tags":[456],"class_list":["post-6875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-roots-music","tag-sacred-harp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6877,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875\/revisions\/6877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}