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aisthesis-4734	Duggar, Allen	Let Every Land Their Tongues Employ: Ritualized Democracy among Shape Note Singers	2022	7	.pdf	application/pdf	5135	256	63	ey are shape note singers preparing for four hours of music making. ! e songs will be recorded for the minutes, entering them into the public record for the event, and the anecdotes from past singings, biographical tidbits on the composers and great singers, and testimonies of spiritual connection with the music, having been ritually o$ered to the community, will then come to make up the conversations for future singings across the country, broadening their reach from the individual to potentially the entire community of shape note singers.	cache/aisthesis-4734.pdf	txt/aisthesis-4734.txt