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Word: southern (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James R. Lemon's sweet-singing children are living today. The Big Singing continues in the Marshall County Court House every May, but many of its dog-eared copies of Southern Harmony been thumbed to pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singin1 Billy's Book | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...A.S.H. after his name meant "Author of Southern Harmony" - a collection of hymns, set to folk tunes, which he published in 1835. Southern Harmony sold 600,000 copies in 25 years, was so popular before the War between the States that even groceries and general stores stocked it. In his arrangements for part-singing, Walker, like other rural teachers of the time, used queer "shape-notes" (square, triangular, diamond, round) which were supposed to make music easier to read. Southern Harmony contained a treatise on the rudiments of music, and such observations on singing as: "All affectation should be banished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singin1 Billy's Book | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...Benton, Ky., James R. Lemon and some of his family began an annual songfest which became known as "Benton's Big Singing," attracted people from miles around by their performance of hymns and revival songs from Southern Harmony. Sample old favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singin1 Billy's Book | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Lest they disappear entirely, the WPA Federal Writers' Project last week got out facsimile edition of "Singin' Billy's" song book- just in time for this year's one-day Singing. Armed with fine new copies Southern Harmony, the singers once filled the Court House, yielding to 40 oldsters the honored place in front of rail. To the time-beating of a quavery old leader, everyone joined in the traditional opening number: Brethren, we met to worship, and adore the Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singin1 Billy's Book | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...giant dehumidifier cased in concrete. This installation, first of its kind, is being hooked up, not to any building but to Woodward's fiery blast furnaces where the 57-year-old company can turn out enough iron (annual capacity 450,000 tons) to make it the second largest Southern merchant producer ("merchants" produce pig iron for sale to foundries, mills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Uniform Pig | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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