An Eternal Pitch: Bishop G. E. Patterson, Broadcast Religion, and the Afterlives of Ecstasy Volume 2

An Eternal Pitch examines the homiletic life and afterlife of Bishop G. E. Patterson, the dynamic spiritual leader of the Church of God in Christ from 2000 to 2007. Although Patterson died in 2007, his voice remains a staple of radio and television broadcast, and his sermons have taken on a life of their own online, where myriad YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok users enact innovative forms of religious broadcasting. Their preoccupation with Patterson's "Afterliveness" punctuates the significance of Patterson's preoccupation with musical repetition: across the decades of Patterson's ministry, a set of musical gestures recur as sonic channels, bringing an individual sermon into contact with scripture's eternal transmission.

Author: Braxton D. Shelley
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 10/31/2023
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780520387140
ISBN10: 0520387147
BISAC Categories:
- Music | Religious | Christian
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- History | African American & Black

About the Author
Braxton D. Shelley is Associate Professor of Music, of Sacred Music, and of Divinity at Yale University, where he is also Director of the Program in Music and the Black Church. He is the author of Healing for the Soul: Richard Smallwood, the Vamp, and the Gospel Imagination.