Flaming? : the peculiar theopolitics of fire and desire in black male gospel performance / Alisha Lola Jones
- Author
- Jones, Alisha Lola
- Published
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (304 pages).
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Series
- Summary
- Prompted by the popular term "flaming" that is used to identify over-the-top or peculiar performance of identity, Flaming? argues that male African American gospel singers wield and interweave a variety of multivalent aural-visual cues, including vocal style, gesture, attire, and homiletics, to position themselves along a spectrum of gender identities. These multisensory enactments empower artists (i.e., "peculiar people") to demonstrate modes of "competence" that affirm their fitness to minister through speech and song. Through a progression of transcongregational case studies, Flaming? observes the ways in which African American men traverse tightly knit social networks to negotiate their identities through and beyond the worship experience.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780190065454 (ebook)
- Audience Notes
- Specialized.
- Note
- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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