An Episode in the History of an Acoustic Mask
Philadelphia, 1908
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4855382 |
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| Authors | Stephan Palmié (0000-0001-7820-3199, Université Mustapha Stambouli de Mascara, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 187 |
| Pages | 127-147 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archives de sciences sociales des religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0335-5985 • E-ISSN: 1777-5825 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/assr.46061 |
| OpenAlex | W2981680590 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
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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| Highly cited | No |
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