"Let's Get It On!" Performance Theory and Black Pentecostalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20209744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ashon Crawley (Emory University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 308-329 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Black Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-9948 • E-ISSN: 1743-1670 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/blth2008v6i3.308 |
| OpenAlex | W2001983850 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 7 |
In this paper, performance theory, augmented with both feminist and queer theory critiques and ideas, help analyze the various aspects of Black Pentecostal experience. This paper is primarily concerned with the rhetorics of the Black Church and how these rhetorical strategies can immure congregants to abject embodied experience. I use the Black Pentecostal church tradition as a site that both consolidates and disrupts binary, heteronormative, heterosexist and homoracist gender systems, analyzing a sermon titled "Let's Get It On" by Bishop Iona Locke to demonstrate this
Aesthetics · African american · Art · Black church · Black theology · Black women · Critical theory · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Heteronormativity · Intersectionality · Literature · Queer · Queer theory · Rhetorical question · Sermon · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |