Sacralising signals for the institution and the individual: KZN and the LDS church’s approach to radio as a new medium

Feller, Gavin

doi:10.1080/14755610.2015.1083456

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“…Once amplification and broadcasting arrived, church leaders fit them inexorably into their narrative, like a long line of American religionists awed by "the rhetoric of the electrical sublime" (Carey 1989, 206ff). They figured radio as a kind of substitute assembly, presence at a distance, auditory pilgrimage (Feller 2015). As Dayan and Katz (1992) have shown, broadcasting can take on a sacral colouring thanks to its ability to transport listeners and viewers and to evoke imagined communities and assemblies.…”

Section: Auditory Pilgrimagementioning

confidence: 99%

“My ancestors welling in me”: sound and silence in the Salt Lake Tabernacle

Peters

2020

Sound Studies

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The Salt Lake (or Mormon) Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah has been the object of religious, scientific, and cultural fascination since its construction in the 1860s. To this day, visitors are treated to a pin-drop performance that demonstrates the building's unique acoustic properties. The building, whose history stretches from pioneer auditorium to broadcasting facility, has anchored a crossgenerational soundscape that is at once architectural, musical, oratorical, political, and religious. Its soundscape echoes well over a century with both choral hymns and physical, even metaphysical silences. This article traces the story of that soundscape and demonstrates the relevance of the history of ideas as a method in sound studies.

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Section: Auditory Pilgrimagementioning

confidence: 99%