***Units 3-8 Package Sale (Discount)
Sat, Feb 03
|Zoom
Have you ever experienced food that makes you wanna sing? This expression is an aesthetic value at the core of African-American gastromusicology (music & foodways). This course comprises live & recorded courses that cover 8 units of critical gastromusicology. Manual included. (Details below)
Time & Location
Feb 03, 2024, 3:00 PM – Feb 04, 2024, 3:00 PM
Zoom
About the Event
COMMUNION: “Bad Blood” Stigmata and Remembrance
There is no power in the blood.
Delores S. Williams,
Drawing from ethnography of openly gay Black men’s musical performance of gender and sexuality, this final chapter examines the gastromusical ritual and cultural semiotics of performing the covers that emphasizes the blood of Jesus. While doing fieldwork of Black male musicians, I observed a musical repertoire trend in their concerts of covering James Hall’s “Oh, the Blood of Jesus.” Hall’s musical style is often characterized as both a queer and distinct gospel sound, deploying a combination of minor modes and upbeat tempos, chromaticism, unconventional harmonic syntax, and incorporation of melodic material associated with requiemsor funeral masses. Singing about the body and blood of Jesus during communion is common. However, Black gay men are enacting an emerging performance practice that emphasizes that blood in a manner that conjures spiritual, sensuous, and same-sex meaning for the…
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3-8 Units Package Sale
Obtain Discount of 3-8 Sessions with one time purchase of package.
$772.10
+$19.30 ticket service fee
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