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English
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Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America
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Champaign, IL
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University of Illinois Press
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200
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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 links 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."
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A Chosen People, a Promised Land : Mormonism and Race in Hawai'i
A History and Influence of the Mormon Theatre from 1839-1869
All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
A Sacred Code : Mormon Temple Dedication Prayers, 1836-2000
Belief, Metaphor, and Rhetoric : The Mormon Practice of Testimony Bearing
Blood of the Prophets : Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Brigham Young : American Moses
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
Early Mormon Patriarchy and the Paradoxes of Democratic Religiosity in Jacksonian America
Early Theatricals in Utah
Elder Price Superstar : The Book of Mormon, Current Broadway Musical
Evangelical America and Early Mormonism
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
Language Planning in Frontier America : The Case of the Deseret Alphabet
Ministering Minstrels : Blackface Entertainment in Pioneer Utah
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Music and Heaven in Mormon Thought
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
'Not to be Riten' : The Mormon Temple Rite as Oral Canon
People of Paradox : A History of Mormon Culture
Poetic Borrowing in Early Mormonism
Reflections on the Mormon 'Canon'
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
(Re)living the Pioneer Past : Mormon Youth Handcart Trek Re-Enactments
Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons
The Abridging Works : The Epic and Historic Book of Mormon Arranged in Sequence of Composition
The American Religion : The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation
The Angel and the Beehive : The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
The Church as Broadcaster
The Drama in Utah : The Story of the Salt Lake Theatre
The Inca Priest on the Mormon Stage : A Native American Melodrama and a New American Religion
The Lost Book of Mormon : A Quest for the Book That Just Might Be the Great American Novel
The Making of a Mormon Myth : The 1844 Transfiguration of Brigham Young
The Mantle of the Prophet Joseph Smith Passes to Brother Brigham : One Hundred Twenty-one Testimonies of a Collective Spiritual Witness
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
The Mormons and the Theatre, or the History of Theatricals in Utah, with Reminiscences and Comments, Humorous and Critical
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir : A Biography
The Ritualization of Mormon History and Other Essays
The Theater in Mormon Life and Culture
Waiting for World's End : Diaries of Wilford Woodruff
Who Shall Ascend into the Hill of the Lord?
Zion : The Progressive Roots of Mormon Correlation