Abbeville Institute

Southern Identity Through Southern Music St Christopher Conference Center, July 15-20, 2018 Seabrook Island, South Carolina Music has been described as "the soul of the world embedded in sound." Southern music exemplifies the traditions and culture of its people "embedded in sound." It sprang from the mud, the rivers, the forests, the fields, and the mountains. From the land and place, to religion, folk songs, poverty and defeat, a "new South" and and old culture, the South has a story…