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SINGING THE SHAPES

Songs of the enduring sacred harp

a feature documentary by Timothy Morton

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Sacred Harp isn’t a performance—it’s a thunderous, communal eruption of sound. Singing the Shapes invites you into a living tradition, carried not by re-enactors but by everyday people singing some of the oldest songs still ringing in American life. I wanted to understand what holds them together—and why this music still matters.

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