Mormons, musical theater, and belonging in America / Jake Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Jake, 1984- author.

Series:

Music in American life.

Illinois scholarship online.

Music in American life

Illinois scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musicals--United States--History and criticism.

Musicals.

Latter Day Saints--United States--History.

Latter Day Saints.

Musicals--Religious aspects--Latter Day Saint churches.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 pages)

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2020.

Summary:

American musical theater is often dismissed as frivolous or kitschy entertainment. But what if musicals actually mattered a great deal? What if perhaps the most innocuous musical genre in America actually defined the practices of Mormonism - America's fastest-growing religion? 'Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America' is an interdisciplinary study of voice, popular music, and American religion that analyzes the unexpected yet dynamic relationship between two of America's most iconic institutions, Mormonism and American musical theater.

Contents:

Introduction : vicarious voices

"Come, listen to a prophet's voice, and hear the word of God" : the voice and Mormon theatricality

Promised valley, integration, and the singing voice

Exoticized voices, racialized bodies : lineage and whiteness on stage

"I've heard that voice before" : reprising the voice in sacred time

Voice interrupted : Book of Mormon and the failed voice of correlated Mormonism

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 3, 2019).

Previously issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

9780252051364

025205136X