An Eternal Pitch

Bishop G. E. Patterson, Broadcast Religion, and the Afterlives of Ecstasy

Braxton D. Shelley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38714-0 (ISBN)

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An Eternal Pitch examines the homiletic life and afterlife of Bishop G. E. Patterson, the dynamic spiritual leader of the Church of God in Christ from 2000 to 2007. Although Patterson died in 2007, his voice remains a staple of radio and television broadcast, and his sermons have taken on a life of their own online, where myriad YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok users enact innovative forms of religious broadcasting. Their preoccupation with Patterson’s “Afterliveness” punctuates the significance of Patterson’s preoccupation with musical repetition: across the decades of Patterson’s ministry, a set of musical gestures recur as sonic channels, bringing an individual sermon into contact with scripture’s eternal transmission.

Braxton D. Shelley is Associate Professor of Music, Sacred Music, and Divinity at Yale University, where he is also Director of the Program in Music and the Black Church. He is the author of Healing for the Soul: Richard Smallwood, the Vamp, and the Gospel Imagination.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Author’s Note on Media Files
Acknowledgments
Prologue

Introduction
1. Broadcast Religion
2. Broadcast Medium
3. Broadcast Grammar
4. Broadcast Frequency, or The Politics of Key
5. Broadcast Ensemble: The Logic of the Prayer Cloth
Eternal Life: An Epilogue

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.11.2023
Reihe/Serie	Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination ; 2
Zusatzinfo	14 b-w figures, 10 music examples
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-38714-7 / 0520387147
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38714-0 / 9780520387140
Zustand	Neuware