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BLACKPENTECOSTAL BREATH
THE AESTHETICS OF POSSIBILITY |
| By: |
Ashon T. Crawley |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0823274551 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780823274550 |
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| Publisher: |
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
3 October, 2016 |
| Series: |
Commonalities |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility investigates the relationship of aesthetic productions to modes of collective, social intellectual practice. Engaging black studies, queer theory, sound studies, literary theory, theological studies, continental philosophy and visual studies, Black Pentecostal Breath analyzes the ways otherwise modes of existence are disruptions of marginalization and violence. |
| Synopsis: |
In this profoundly innovative book, Ashon T. Crawley engages a wide range of critical paradigms from black studies, queer theory, and sound studies to theology, continental philosophy, and performance studies to theorize the ways in which alternative or "otherwise" modes of existence can serve as disruptions against the marginalization of and violence against minoritarian lifeworlds and possibilities for flourishing.Examining the whooping, shouting, noise-making, and speaking in tongues of Black Pentecostalism-a multi-racial, multi-class, multi-national Christian sect with one strand of its modern genesis in 1906 Los Angeles-Blackpentecostal Breath reveals how these aesthetic practices allow for the emergence of alternative modes of social organization. As Crawley deftly reveals, these choreographic, sonic, and visual practices and the sensual experiences they create are not only important for imagining what Crawley identifies as "otherwise worlds of possibility," they also yield a general hermeneutics, a methodology for reading culture in an era when such expressions are increasingly under siege. |
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20 Illustrations, black and white |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Fordham University Press |
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