User:Silversand

I am senior digital scholarship strategist at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship and associated faculty in the Department of Music at Emory University. I earned my PhD in American studies at Emory's Institute for the Liberal Arts studying  race,  place, and Sacred Harp singing with an approach that combines critical bibliography and  musicology with the study of the  southern United States and my  MFA in  sound art from the Integrated Electronic Arts program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. I am editor-in-chief and project-director of Sounding Spirit, an NEH-funded initiative producing digital  scholarly editions and  thematic collections of southern  vernacular sacred  songbooks. I am past managing editor of Southern Spaces, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary area studies journal on place and space in the US South and Atlanta Studies , a digital journal and blog on contemporary and historical issues facing the Atlanta metropolitan region. I live in Decatur, Georgia. I serve as the vice president of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company and editor of Shape Notes: Journal of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company. My additional areas of expertise include religious music of the United States, experimental and  electronic music, ethnography,  digital humanities, and  electronic publishing.

Articles to Which I've Contributed

 * Music of Georgia (U.S. state)
 * Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)
 * Carrollton, Georgia
 * Bremen, Georgia
 * Music of Alabama
 * James Landrum White
 * Joseph Stephen James
 * List of shape-note tunebooks
 * Fuging tune
 * How Sacred Harp music is sung
 * Sacred Harp
 * Vale Cemetery
 * China, Maine
 * Elvis Perkins