ABSTRACT
In 1933, George Pullen Jackson published the first of his six books on American folk hymnody, White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands, thereby calling the attention of the musical world to an unusual aspect of American music. This chapter deals with the anthems published in four-shape shape-note tunebooks originating in the southern United States between 1816 and 1860. It aims to provide a basic list of the anthem repertory found in these books and to determine, insofar as possible, the sources of these anthems, with particular attention given to southern contributions to the repertory. The anthems by White and King appeared too late in the “classic” period of southern fasola tunebook production to exercise much influence on other collections. The anthem repertory of the southern fasola tunebooks supports the general impression that the music of the eighteenth-century New England singing-school composers continued to be popular in the South long after it had fallen out of favor in the North.
