Moravian soundscapes : a sonic history of the Moravian Missions in early Pennsylvania / Sarah Justina Eyerly.

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Eyerly, Sarah Justina [Author]

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online resource

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9780253047755
9780253047731

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BV2560 .M673 2020

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Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the Companion Website -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Naming, Terminology, and Archival Sources -- Prologue: The Pennsylvania Wilds -- Introduction: Sounding New Histories of the Moravian Missions -- Peale -- 1. Penn's Woods -- Bethlehem -- 2. Friends and Strangers -- Herrnhut -- 3. Sound and Spirit -- Moravian Run -- 4. 1782 -- Epilogue: Petquotting -- Glossary: A Moravian Vocabulary -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

Subject: In Moravian Soundscapes, Sarah Eyerly contends that the study of sound is integral to understanding the interactions between German Moravian missionaries and Native communities in early Pennsylvania. In the mid-18th century, when the frontier between settler and Native communities was a shifting spatial and cultural borderland, sound mattered. People listened carefully to each other and the world around them. In Moravian communities, cultures of hearing and listening encompassed and also superseded musical traditions such as song and hymnody. Complex biophonic, geophonic, and anthrophonic acoustic environments'or soundscapes'characterized daily life in Moravian settlements such as Bethlehem, Nain, GnadenhUtten, and FriedenshUtten. Through detailed analyses and historically informed recreations of Moravian communal, environmental, and religious soundscapes and their attendant hymn traditions, Moravian Soundscapes explores how sounds'musical and nonmusical, human and nonhuman'shaped the Moravians' religious culture. Combined with access to an interactive website that immerses the reader in mid-18th century Pennsylvania, and framed with an autobiographical narrative, Moravian Soundscapes recovers the roles of sound and music in Moravian communities and provides a road map for similar studies of other places and religious traditions in the future.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the Companion Website -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Naming, Terminology, and Archival Sources -- Prologue: The Pennsylvania Wilds -- Introduction: Sounding New Histories of the Moravian Missions -- Peale -- 1. Penn's Woods -- Bethlehem -- 2. Friends and Strangers -- Herrnhut -- 3. Sound and Spirit -- Moravian Run -- 4. 1782 -- Epilogue: Petquotting -- Glossary: A Moravian Vocabulary -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

In Moravian Soundscapes, Sarah Eyerly contends that the study of sound is integral to understanding the interactions between German Moravian missionaries and Native communities in early Pennsylvania. In the mid-18th century, when the frontier between settler and Native communities was a shifting spatial and cultural borderland, sound mattered. People listened carefully to each other and the world around them. In Moravian communities, cultures of hearing and listening encompassed and also superseded musical traditions such as song and hymnody. Complex biophonic, geophonic, and anthrophonic acoustic environments'or soundscapes'characterized daily life in Moravian settlements such as Bethlehem, Nain, GnadenhUtten, and FriedenshUtten. Through detailed analyses and historically informed recreations of Moravian communal, environmental, and religious soundscapes and their attendant hymn traditions, Moravian Soundscapes explores how sounds'musical and nonmusical, human and nonhuman'shaped the Moravians' religious culture. Combined with access to an interactive website that immerses the reader in mid-18th century Pennsylvania, and framed with an autobiographical narrative, Moravian Soundscapes recovers the roles of sound and music in Moravian communities and provides a road map for similar studies of other places and religious traditions in the future.

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