Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp | |
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Directed by | Matt Hinton Erica Hinton |
Written by | Matt Hinton Erica Hinton John Plunkett |
Produced by | Matt Hinton |
Narrated by | Jim Lauderdale |
Cinematography | Matt Hinton Erica Hinton |
Edited by | Matt Hinton w/ Jennifer Brooks |
Music by | William Billings William Walker B. F. White E. J. King |
Distributed by | Awake Productions |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp is a 2006 documentary film directed by Matt and Erica Hinton, and narrated by Jim Lauderdale.[2][3] It follows the folk tradition of Sacred Harp singing, a type of shape-note singing, kept alive by amateur singers in the rural American South.
The Sacred Harp singers: