Item Detail
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27001
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English
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Testimony of the Senses : Latter-day Saints and the Civilized Soundscape
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Western Historical Quarterly
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Spring 2015
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46
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1
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Logan, UT
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Oxford University Press
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53-74
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Settlers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints employed sound to colonize the Great Basin, audibly establishing control over a putatively inhospitable territory and its Native inhabitants. The Mormons used sound as an element of colonization and to eventually project their own "civilized" status back to America's East Coast. [Author's abstract]