{"id":383,"date":"2011-03-24T22:52:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T05:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=383"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:12:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:12:55","slug":"sacred-harp-at-ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/03\/sacred-harp-at-ga\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Harp at GA?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scott Wells, at Boy in the Bands, poses an excellent question regarding the upcoming General Assembly (GA) of Unitarian Universalists: &#8220;What might we show or teach one another in the hallways and caf\u00e9s of Charlotte?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My answer: I really want to share some Sacred Harp singing at GA. Yeah, yeah, I know it&#8217;s &#8220;theologically incorrect,&#8221; but it&#8217;s rockin good music that draws in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L4h03L49ac4\">punk rockers<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anonymous4.com\/discography.php?19\">Grammy-winning performers of medieval music<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kkOQ9V6BRJI\">avant-garde sound artists<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YaLnG7vfVOc\">young urbanites<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=47LjQ2dl85s\">folkies<\/a> &#8212; and just ordinary people like you. This is what<em>real<\/em> hymn singing sounds like: loud, raucous, unrestrained, by turns mournful and ecstatic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I kinda doubt there will be many Sacred Harp singers at GA, but if you&#8217;re one, let me know, and let&#8217;s see if we can set something up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Wells, at Boy in the Bands, poses an excellent question regarding the upcoming General Assembly (GA) of Unitarian Universalists: &#8220;What might we show or teach one another in the hallways and caf\u00e9s of Charlotte?&#8221; My answer: I really want to share some Sacred Harp singing at GA. Yeah, yeah, I know it&#8217;s &#8220;theologically incorrect,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/03\/sacred-harp-at-ga\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sacred Harp at GA?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[72,107],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musical-arts","tag-sacred-harp-singing","tag-uuaga2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12890,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/12890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}