Jesse P. Karlsberg's research examines connections between race, place, folklorization, and American music focusing on the editions of The Sacred Harp—a shape-note tunebook first published in Georgia in 1844. Jesse is the editor of Original Sacred Harp: Centennial Edition (Pitts Theology Library and Sacred Harp Publishing Company, 2015), a facsimile reprint of a 1911 edition of The Sacred Harp with a new introduction. He is the consulting editor of Southern Spaces, a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, open-access journal about regions, places, and cultures of the US South and their global connections. An active Sacred Harp singer, teacher, composer, and organizer, Jesse is the vice president of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company, the non-profit organization that publishes The Sacred Harp, editor of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company Newsletter, and research director of the Sacred Harp Museum.