An Eternal Pitch - Bishop G. E. Patterson, Broadcast Religion, and the Afterlives of Ecstasy

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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination, 2
Release date:	November 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Braxton D Shelley
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Pages:	260
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-38713-3
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-520-38713-9
Barcode:	9780520387133

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