A Sunlit Ambience: How Reverb Pedals Influence the Contemporary Worship Music Imagination

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2025
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Abstract
With the recent proliferation of scholarship on the musical elements of Contemporary Worship Music (CWM) in addition to ethnographies exploring the tradition's inner machinations, readers now enjoy unprecedented levels of insight into the actions of human actors and their music. But what of CWM's non-human actors? Could the instruments and musical equipment used by CWM practitioners, for example, impact evangelical piety? In this article, I entertain this question by arguing that the materiality of reverb pedals—devices used by guitarists to add artificial reverberation to their sound—influences how evangelicals conceptualize elements of their faith by introducing new imagery or enriching pre-existing conceptual tropes.
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Authors Dylan Crosson
Journal Yale Journal of Music & Religion
Year 2025
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10.17132/2377-231x.1296
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https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1296&context=yjmr
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