Moravian soundscapes : a sonic history of the Moravian missions in early Pennsylvania

Summary: "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 In Moravian communities, cultures of hearing and listening encompassed and also superseded musical traditions such as song and hymnody.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."--Publisher's description.

Record details

ISBN: 9780253047663
ISBN: 9780253047694
ISBN: 0253047692
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 269 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
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Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-260) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue: The Pennsylvania wilds -- Introduction: Sounding new histories of the Moravian missions -- Peale -- 1. Penn's Woods -- Bethlehem -- 2. Friends & strangers -- Herrnhut -- 3. Sound & spirit -- Moravian Run -- 4. 1782 -- Epilogue: Petquotting -- Glossary: A Moravian vocabulary.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from digital title page (EBSCO, viewed April 13, 2021).