From: Young Center <youngctr@etown.edu>
Date: Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 5:10 PM
Subject: Please Announce Sundays, Sept. 11&18, 2022
To: info@gehmanmennonitechurch.org <info@gehmanmennonitechurch.org>
Please announce in your bulletin or however you wish on Sundays, September 11 and September 18.
Moravian Soundscapes: Hearing New Histories of Early America
What: Presentation by Dr. Sarah Eyerly
When: Thursday, September 22, 2022 at 7pm; free and open to the public
Where: Bucher Meetinghouse, Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. Use GPS: 450 Campus Road, Elizabethtown, PA 17022. This will bring you directly to the parking lot just outside the doors of the fully accessible Young Center.
Dr. Sarah Eyerly will speak on the musical practices of eighteenth-century Moravian communities in eastern Pennsylvania. The sonic histories of these religious communities provide new insights into the ways that music and sound functioned as a site of cultural encounter between German missionaries and Indigenous communities in early America, demonstrating the rich and multifaceted meanings that eighteenth-century music and religious history hold for contemporary Americans.
Sarah Eyerly is the Curtis Mayes Orpheus Professor of Musicology at Florida State University and director of the early music program at FSU. Her book, Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early America, was recently published by Indiana University Press. See this and more info at the Young Center website: https://www.etown.edu/centers/young-center/events.aspx
