An Eternal Pitch (eBook)

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

Braxton D. Shelley (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
256 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520387157 (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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.10.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination
• Reihe/Serie: Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Schlagworte: african american religious broadcasting • Afterlives • Bishop Gilbert Earl Patterson • Black Pentecostal • electronic church • Pentecostalism • posthumous voices • radio religion • recordings • Sacred • Social Media • sonic relationships • Sound • Technophilia • Televangelists
• ISBN-13: 9780520387157 / 9780520387157