Rituals and the Real: Stories and Transformative Storytelling Folklorists distinguish between the setting of a storytelling event and the universe created within the story. The world of the teller and what she tells overlap, simultaneously exist, and react upon and against each other. Theoretical frameworks developed by narratologists and anthropologists help us explore the meaning …
Speaker: Rebecca Stevenson
We’ll Make the Air with Music Ring!
We’ll Make the Air with Music Ring! In Mormon Country, Wallace Stegner noted as characteristic of Mormons settling the Great Basin, ‘still they came, and they came singing.’ In this sing-your-own session, we’ll explore the American musical roots of early LDS hymnody, from the Bay Psalm Book and New England fuguing tunes to The Sacred …