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...
| Published in: | Archives de sciences sociales des religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ed. de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
[2019]
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| In: |
Archives de sciences sociales des religions
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Philadelphia, Pa.
/ Abakuá (Secret society)
/ Ritual
/ Afrokubanische Musik
/ Electronics
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements KBR Latin America |
| Further subjects: | B
Technology
B Afro-Cuban religions B Ritual B Sound |
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| Summary: | 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 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Archives de sciences sociales des religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4000/assr.46061 |