- Description
- xxviii, 224 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "An Eternal Pitch examines the life and afterlife of the vivid sermons 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 a host of YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok users enact innovative forms of religious broadcasting. Their preoccupation with Patterson's 'afterliveness' clarifies 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"--
- Series Statement
- Phono: black music and the global imagination ; 2
- Uniform Title
- Phono (Oakland, Calif.) ; 2.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prologue -- Introduction -- Broadcast Religion -- Broadcast Medium -- Broadcast Grammar -- Broadcast Frequency, or The Politics of Key -- Broadcast Ensemble : The Logic of the Prayer Cloth -- Eternal Life : An Epilogue
- ISBN
- 9780520387133
- 0520387139
- 9780520387140
- 0520387147
- 9780520387157 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023013777
- OCLC
- YBP 2023013777
- Author
Shelley, Braxton D., author.
- Title
An eternal pitch : Bishop G. E. Patterson, broadcast religion, and the afterlives of ecstasy / Braxton D. Shelley.
- Publisher
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Series
Phono: black music and the global imagination ; 2
Phono (Oakland, Calif.) ; 2.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
Online version: Shelley, Braxton D. Eternal pitch Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023] 9780520387157 (DLC) 2023013778