Flaming?: The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance

ISBN-13: 9780190065423 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 344 str.

Alisha Jones

Recenzje

The book draws on six years of extensive ethnographic research, including interviews and participant observations of gospel performances. Jones's main argument is that Black male gospel singers use their voices to articulate a unique theopolitics that challenges dominant understandings of race, gender, and sexuality. She argues this theopolitics is grounded in music's ability to free self-expression.

O autorze

Alisha Lola Jones, PhD is an assistant professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University (Bloomington). Dr. Jones is a council member of the Society for Ethnomusicology's (SEM), American Musicological Society (AMS) and co-chair of the Music and Religion Section of the American Academy of Religion (AAR). Dr. Jones' research interests include musical masculinities, global pop music, future studies, ecomusicology, music and theology, the music industry, musics of the African diaspora and emerging research on music and future foodways (gastromusicology) in conjunction with The Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, CA.