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Ben M

The Nameless Mormon Blogosphere | Times & Seasons - 1 views

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bloggernacle mormon

shared by Ben M on 26 May 10 - Cached
  • Latter Day Blogs is pretty good, but the strength of St. Blog’s is that it suggests a place in which this online community exists.
  • They used to refer to on-line LDS posters as members of the virtual ward.
  • Some object on the grounds that a choir is a better analogy than a space. Note that the founding metaphor of the blog community is spacial–the blogosphere. Note also that a choir is rather more directed and harmonious than we expect to be, that admission to it is controlled by the choir whereas admission to the sacred precincts of a tabernacle is at least in conception controlled by God. While singing ought to be an act of praise, we tend to think of it as entertainment, whereas we are always aware of our presence before God in a tabernacle. Getting down to specifics, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a somewhat unhip public relations gesture. It serves to present an friendly face to an antipathetic world, and is thus at root defensive. The tabernacle, on the other hand, is the sacred space that conceptually contains the world; it is at root expansive.
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  • I thought about that, Jim. Here’s my response: first, if we were calling ourselves the Tabernacle I think I’d object. Bloggernacle tones down the sacred meaning enough, I think, while still keeping some of those overtones of acting before the eyes of God. Also, in Mormonism, the Tabernacle isn’t exactly a temple. It’s a holy building and holy space, true, but one in which musical concerts and Journal of Discourse talks on farming methods can still be appropriate. It’s almost the Mormon Public Square.
  • Ben M on 26 May 10
     
    This is the blog post where the "bloggernacle" got its name back in 2004
Nyssa Silvester

YouTube - Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir - 'Lux Aurumque' - 0 views

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crowdsourcing choir

shared by Nyssa Silvester on 09 May 11 - Cached
  • Nyssa Silvester on 09 May 11
     
    Crowdsourcing the choir--from what I understand, recordings of the separate parts were released to the general public, who could upload videos of themselves singing a part of their choice. Then Eric Whitacre and his team put this together. Voila.
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