Category: Radio & Podcasts


  • “How Can I Keep From Singing” Podcast on Shape-Notes

    The podcast How Can I Keep From Singing?, hosted by educator and community-singing advocate Stuart Stotts, explores the enduring role of participatory singing across a wide range of traditions. Through interviews with practitioners, scholars, and organizers, the series consistently highlights singing not as performance, but as a lived, communal practice embedded in culture and everyday…

  • Shapes of America: A New Radio Special Celebrates Sacred Harp Singing

    There’s an exciting new radio special that celebrates the rich tradition of American shape-note singing—an hour-long journey into the sounds and stories of Sacred Harp and its related tunebooks. Shapes of America, produced by Louisville Public Media and the Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, traces this distinctive style of communal, a cappella singing from its early…