Ananias Davisson

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title: Ananias Davisson
text: Ananias Davisson was a singing school teacher, printer and compiler of shape note tunebooks. He is best known for his 1816 compilation Kentucky Harmony, which is the first Southern shape-note tunebook. According to musicologist George Pullen Jackson, Davisson's compilations are "pioneer repositories of a sort of song that the rural South really liked."
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date created: 2005-01-28T02:36:49Z
date modified: 2024-08-31T19:45:25Z
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