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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.
Price: $95.00
Pages: 256
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination
Publication Date:
31 October 2023
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520387133
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
Braxton D. Shelley is Associate Professor of Music, Sacred Music, and Divinity at Yale University, where he is also Director of the Program in Music and the Black Church. He is the author of Healing for the Soul: Richard Smallwood, the Vamp, and the Gospel Imagination.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Author’s Note on Media Files
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction
1. Broadcast Religion
2. Broadcast Medium
3. Broadcast Grammar
4. Broadcast Frequency, or The Politics of Key
5. Broadcast Ensemble: The Logic of the Prayer Cloth
Eternal Life: An Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Author’s Note on Media Files
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction
1. Broadcast Religion
2. Broadcast Medium
3. Broadcast Grammar
4. Broadcast Frequency, or The Politics of Key
5. Broadcast Ensemble: The Logic of the Prayer Cloth
Eternal Life: An Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index