Talk with Post Doc Bernard Gordillo Brockmann

This talk examines sound in the Spanish Franciscan missions of California. The cast, suspended metal bell, or church bell, was a crucial tool of the mission system in Alta California (1769–1846). Adapted from the Western European tradition, church bells with “sound and voice” generated the soundmark of the mission sensorium—shaping time, space, and discipline—in which concentrated Native peoples negotiated missionization. Beginning in the 1880s, ...