Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America
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ethics of communication
ethnicity
excommunication
exoticism
impersonation
integration
Joseph Smith
Judaism
Kurt Weill
lineage
mimicry
modernity
Mormonism
musicals
musicology
nationalism
performance
Polynesian Cultural Center
popular music
racial appropriation
Rodgers and Hammerstein
sacred time
sound
theatricality
theology of voice
Thomas Rice
Times Square
Utah
vicarious voice
voice
whiteness
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- ISBN 9780252042515
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2019
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints adopted the vocal and theatrical traditions of American musical theater as important theological tenets. As Church membership grew, leaders saw how the genre could help define the faith and wove musical theater into many aspects of Mormon life. Jake Johnson merges the study of belonging in America with scholarship on voice and popular music to explore the surprising yet profound link between two quintessentially American institutions. Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Mormons gravitated toward musicals as a common platform for transmitting political and theological ideas. Johnson sees Mormons using musical theater as a medium for theology of voice--a religious practice that suggests how vicariously voicing another person can bring one closer to godliness. This sounding, Johnson suggests, created new opportunities for living. Voice and the musical theater tradition provided a site for Mormons to negotiate their way into middle-class respectability. At the same time, musical theater became a unique expressive tool of Mormon culture.
Jake Johnson is an assistant professor of musicology in the Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University.
