This post contains a list of some Sacred Harp articles that can be found online.
Free access:
Black Sacred Harp Singing in East Texas, by Donald R. Ross
Death in the Sacred Harp, by Jessica Tilley (Master of Arts thesis 2007, Georgia State University)
John Wyeth and the Development of Southern Folk Hymnody, by David Warren Steel
Mississippi's African American Shape Note Tradition, by Chiquita Walls
"Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography", by James B. Wallace, from Southern Spaces.
The Alto Parts in the "True Dispersed Harmony" of The Sacred Harp Revisions, by Wallace McKenzie, (1989. Musical Quarterly 73:153-71)
The Performance of History: Motivations for Revivalist Participation in Sacred Harp of the Chesapeake Bay Area, by Brigita Lee Sebald, (Master of Arts thesis 2005; University of Maryland)
The Sacred Harp in Northeast Mississippi, by John Quincy Wolf (Mississippi Folklore Register, Volume IV, Number 2. Summer, 1970)
Limited or Paid access:
Anthems of the Sacred Harp Tunesmiths, by Wallace McKenzie (American Music 6(3):247-263. 1989)
Daddy Sang Lead: the History and Performance Practice of White Southern Gospel Music, by Stanley Heard Brobston
"First Sing the Notes": Oral and Written Traditions in Sacred Harp Transmission, by Kiri Miller
"First Sing the Notes": Oral and Written Traditions in Sacred Harp Transmission, by Kiri Miller
"Old Can Be Used Instead of New": Shape-Note Singing and the Crisis of Modernity in the New South, 1880-1920, by Gavin James Campbell (The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 110, No. 436. Spring, 1997)
The Alto Parts in the "True Dispersed Harmony" of The Sacred Harp Revisions, by Wallace McKenzie
To purchase “Blessed be the tie that binds”: community and spirituality among Sacred Harp singers, by Laura Clawson (Poetics, Volume 32, Issues 3-4, June-August 2004)
Limited preview on Google Books of The Sacred Harp: A Tradition and Its Music by Buell E. Cobb.
Several articles are on JSTOR. JSTOR is an online journal archive. It is available through participating libraries and institutions.
Bonus, some links to images of pages from:
William Hauser's Hesperian Harp
The Sacred Harp 1859/60
Selected tunes from Jeremiah Ingalls' Christian Harmony
William Walker's The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion
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