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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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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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
Année: 2019, Volume: 187, Pages: 127-147 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Philadelphia, Pa.
/ Abakuá (Société secrète)
/ Rite
/ Afrokubanische Musik
/ Électronique
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Vie religieuse AZ Nouveau mouvement religieux KBR Amérique Latine |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Son
B Rituel B Technology B Afro-Cuban religions |
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| Résumé: | 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 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Archives de sciences sociales des religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4000/assr.46061 |