An Episode in the History of an Acoustic Mask: Philadelphia, 1908
In 1908, two black Cuban brothers, held a temple on Philadelphia's North Fairmount Avenue, which appears to have combined Edinsonian sound technology with elements from the ritual repertoire of the Abakuá male esoteric brotherhood. I suggest that the technologically enriched "echo" of...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Ed. de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
[2019]
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Archives de sciences sociales des religions
Jahr: 2019, Band: 187, Seiten: 127-147 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Philadelphia, Pa.
/ Abakuá (Geheimbund)
/ Ritus
/ Afrokubanische Musik
/ Elektronik
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion AZ Neue Religionen KBR Lateinamerika |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Technology
B Afro-Cuban religions B Ritual B Sound |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In 1908, two black Cuban brothers, held a temple on Philadelphia's North Fairmount Avenue, which appears to have combined Edinsonian sound technology with elements from the ritual repertoire of the Abakuá male esoteric brotherhood. I suggest that the technologically enriched "echo" of the Leal brothers can be analysed heuristically as the locus of a remarkable convergence between phonic and auditory ideologies underlying the mediation of the divine in the Abakuá, and acoustic transmission technologies through time and space - particularly telephony and phonography - that had begun to reconfigure the Western auditory worlds by the second half of the 19th century. |
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| ISSN: | 1777-5825 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Archives de sciences sociales des religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4000/assr.46061 |