9780253047694-0253047692-Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania (Music, Nature, Place)

Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania (Music, Nature, Place)

ISBN-13: 9780253047694
ISBN-10: 0253047692
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Sarah Justina Eyerly
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Format: Paperback 290 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780253047694
ISBN-10: 0253047692
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Sarah Justina Eyerly
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Format: Paperback 290 pages

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Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania (Music, Nature, Place) (ISBN-13: 9780253047694 and ISBN-10: 0253047692), written by authors Sarah Justina Eyerly, was published by Indiana University Press in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Ministry & Evangelism (History, Christian Books & Bibles, Acoustics & Sound, Physics, Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania (Music, Nature, Place) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Ministry & Evangelism books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.81.

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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 In Moravian communities, cultures of hearing and listening encompassed and also superseded musical traditions such as song and hymnody.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, Gnadenhütten, and Friedenshütten. 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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