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 | | Southern gospel convention singing, in turn, is part of a broader musical phenomenon stemming from the Protestant Reformation and Americans' responses to it: the recreational and congregational group singing of sacred music. |
 | | This phenomenon has played a central role in the history of Protestant music-making in the United States of America, from the unison and heterophonic psalm-singing of the colonial era through the part-music of the nineteenth century to the unison and homophonic choruses of modern praise-and-worship music. |
 | | After almost a century of scholarship devoted to this broader musical phenomenon, the southern gospel convention-singing tradition remains little understood by the larger scholarly community--an anomaly, given its popularity. |
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