The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints adopted the vocal
and theatrical traditions of American musical theater as important
theological tenets. As Church membership grew, leaders saw how the
genre could help define the faith and wove musical theater into
many aspects of Mormon life. Jake Johnson merges the study of
belonging in America with scholarship on voice and popular music to
explore the surprising yet profound link between two
quintessentially American institutions. Throughout the twentieth
and twenty-first centuries, Mormons gravitated toward musicals as a
common platform for transmitting political and theological ideas.
Johnson sees Mormons using musical theater as a medium for theology
of voice--a religious practice that suggests how vicariously
voicing another person can bring one closer to godliness. This
sounding, Johnson suggests, created new opportunities for living.
Voice and the musical theater tradition provided a site for Mormons
to negotiate their way into middle-class respectability. At the
same time, musical theater became a unique expressive tool of
Mormon culture.
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