9780190065423-0190065427-Flaming?: The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance

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

ISBN-13: 9780190065423
ISBN-10: 0190065427
Author: Alisha Lola Jones
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 344 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780190065423
ISBN-10: 0190065427
Author: Alisha Lola Jones
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 344 pages

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Flaming?: The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance (ISBN-13: 9780190065423 and ISBN-10: 0190065427), written by authors Alisha Lola Jones, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Instruments (Music) books. You can easily purchase or rent Flaming?: The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Instruments books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.21.

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Male-centered theology, a dearth of men in the pews, and an overrepresentation of queer males in music ministry: these elements coexist within the spaces of historically black Protestant churches, creating an atmosphere where simultaneous heteropatriarchy and "real" masculinity anxieties,
archetypes of the "alpha-male preacher", the "effeminate choir director" and homo-antagonism, are all in play. The "flamboyant" male vocalists formed in the black Pentecostal music ministry tradition, through their vocal styles, gestures, and attire in church services, display a spectrum of gender
performances - from "hyper-masculine" to feminine masculine - to their fellow worshippers, subtly protesting and critiquing the otherwise heteronormative theology in which the service is entrenched. And while the performativity of these men is characterized by cynics as "flaming," a similar
musicalized "fire" - that of the Holy Spirit - moves through the bodies of Pentecostal worshippers, endowing them religio-culturally, physically, and spiritually like "fire shut up in their bones".

Using the lenses of ethnomusicology, musicology, anthropology, men's studies, queer studies, and theology, Flaming?: The Peculiar Theo-Politics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance observes how male vocalists traverse their tightly-knit social networks and negotiate their identities
through and beyond the worship experience. Author Alisha Jones ultimately addresses the ways in which gospel music and performance can afford African American men not only greater visibility, but also an affirmation of their fitness to minister through speech and song.

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