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Just A Closer Walk With Thee. Kenneth Morris's Sonic Imagination.

Lecture by Ashon Crawley, University of Virginia. Chaired by Dr Joao Florencio (Art History & Visual Culture)

Ashon Crawley is Assistant Professor of Religions Studies and African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia, USA.


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His first monograph, Blackpenttecostal Breath, drew from Black Studies, Performance Theory, Sound Studies, Theology and Black Feminist and Queer Theories. It investigated the aesthetics and performances of Black Pentecostalism as liberating, collective social imaginings  that disrupt against the violent marginalisation of minoritarian lifeworlds and allow for the emergence of alternative modes of social organisation.

All welcome, no RSVP required.

Location:

Streatham Court

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