Documentary: Chase the Devil: Religious Music of the Southern Appalachians, 1983
Amazing documentation about the music and the people of the Southern Appalachians. An exploration of the religious music of the southern Appalachian mountains, and the conflict between the sacred, political, and profane. Religious music of the South Appalachians covers a wide panorama. At one extreme, the fundamentalist Baptists regard any music as “the devil’s work,”…