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Moravian Soundscapes - A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania (Hardcover)
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Moravian Soundscapes - A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania (Hardcover)
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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listening encompassed and also superseded musical traditions such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, 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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