TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crawley,Ashon T.
TI  - Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility 
T2  - Commonalities
SN  - 9780823274543
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - African American Religion
KW  - Pentecostalism
KW  - Performance
KW  - Religion
KW  - Sound Studies
N1  - Blackpentecostal breath --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. Breath --; 2. Shouting --; 3. Noise --; 4. Tongues --; Coda --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823274574
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823274574
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823274574/original
ER  -