The Resource The lonely letters, Ashon T. Crawley
The lonely letters, Ashon T. Crawley
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The item The lonely letters, Ashon T. Crawley represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Colby College Libraries.
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- Summary
- "The Lonely Letters is a Black queer critique of the normative world, practicing a restlessness of word and phrase that seeks existence otherwise. The book is a work of creative non-fiction, taking the form of a correspondence between characters A and Moth. The letters explore Blackness and queerness through the music and embodied experience of Blackpentecostal spaces. The correspondence is in epistolary form, organized into 5 sections: Breath, Shouting, Noise, Tongues, and Nothing. The first section opens with A's first letter to Moth about mysticism, and love, considering the embodied nature of Black queer experience in the Blackpentecostal church. Breath functions as a way of being open to the world, antithetical to western logics of the right way to be human -- being protected against vulnerability. The second chapter is about Blackpentecostal music and how the rhythm, tempo, and improvisation moves participants and listeners beyond the material realm into a deep world of feeling and connection. A describes how listening to the music became the paintings they created, which are also shown in this chapter. The paintings -- also by Crawley -- are created in sync with the shouting, stomping, and clapping of the Blackpentecostal tradition. The section called Noise is about quantum theory and mysticism as explorations into the possibilities of deep interconnection, romantically and within the larger community. Section 4, Tongues, is about joy, touch, and interconnection. Black joy functions as the context of Black emergence, with the flesh as the potential for sense experience. The last chapter, Nothing, is about the improvised music traditions of Black churches: how nothing functions as the space for creation. The Blackpentecostal church is described as a place that is fundamentally invitational, about transfer, about excess, the affect that lingers long after the music and musings are done. This book will be of interest to readers and scholars in African American studies, Black Diaspora studies, queer studies, and religious studies"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 270 pages
- Contents
-
- And
- Breath
- Shouting
- Noise
- Tongues
- Nothing
- Isbn
- 9781478007760
- Label
- The lonely letters
- Title
- The lonely letters
- Statement of responsibility
- Ashon T. Crawley
- Subject
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- African American Pentecostals -- Biography
- African American sexual minorities -- Religious life
- African American sexual minorities -- Religious life
- African Americans -- Race identity
- African Americans -- Race identity
- African Americans -- Race identity
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Church music -- African American churches
- Church music -- African American churches
- African American Pentecostal churches -- Social aspects
- Crawley, Ashon T
- Crawley, Ashon T
- Experience (Religion)
- Experience (Religion)
- Experience (Religion)
- Loneliness -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- Loneliness -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- Loneliness -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- Church music -- African American churches
- African American Pentecostal churches -- Social aspects
- African American Pentecostals
- African American Pentecostals -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The Lonely Letters is a Black queer critique of the normative world, practicing a restlessness of word and phrase that seeks existence otherwise. The book is a work of creative non-fiction, taking the form of a correspondence between characters A and Moth. The letters explore Blackness and queerness through the music and embodied experience of Blackpentecostal spaces. The correspondence is in epistolary form, organized into 5 sections: Breath, Shouting, Noise, Tongues, and Nothing. The first section opens with A's first letter to Moth about mysticism, and love, considering the embodied nature of Black queer experience in the Blackpentecostal church. Breath functions as a way of being open to the world, antithetical to western logics of the right way to be human -- being protected against vulnerability. The second chapter is about Blackpentecostal music and how the rhythm, tempo, and improvisation moves participants and listeners beyond the material realm into a deep world of feeling and connection. A describes how listening to the music became the paintings they created, which are also shown in this chapter. The paintings -- also by Crawley -- are created in sync with the shouting, stomping, and clapping of the Blackpentecostal tradition. The section called Noise is about quantum theory and mysticism as explorations into the possibilities of deep interconnection, romantically and within the larger community. Section 4, Tongues, is about joy, touch, and interconnection. Black joy functions as the context of Black emergence, with the flesh as the potential for sense experience. The last chapter, Nothing, is about the improvised music traditions of Black churches: how nothing functions as the space for creation. The Blackpentecostal church is described as a place that is fundamentally invitational, about transfer, about excess, the affect that lingers long after the music and musings are done. This book will be of interest to readers and scholars in African American studies, Black Diaspora studies, queer studies, and religious studies"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Crawley, Ashon T.,
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Crawley, Ashon T
- African American Pentecostals
- Loneliness
- African American sexual minorities
- African American Pentecostal churches
- Church music
- African Americans
- Experience (Religion)
- African American Pentecostals
- African Americans
- Church music
- Experience (Religion)
- Loneliness
- Label
- The lonely letters, Ashon T. Crawley
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- And -- Breath -- Shouting -- Noise -- Tongues -- Nothing
- Control code
- 1111647131
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 270 pages
- Isbn
- 9781478007760
- Lccn
- 2019033500
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- color illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1111647131
- Label
- The lonely letters, Ashon T. Crawley
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- And -- Breath -- Shouting -- Noise -- Tongues -- Nothing
- Control code
- 1111647131
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 270 pages
- Isbn
- 9781478007760
- Lccn
- 2019033500
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- color illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1111647131
Subject
- African American Pentecostals -- Biography
- African American sexual minorities -- Religious life
- African American sexual minorities -- Religious life
- African Americans -- Race identity
- African Americans -- Race identity
- African Americans -- Race identity
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Church music -- African American churches
- Church music -- African American churches
- African American Pentecostal churches -- Social aspects
- Crawley, Ashon T
- Crawley, Ashon T
- Experience (Religion)
- Experience (Religion)
- Experience (Religion)
- Loneliness -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- Loneliness -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- Loneliness -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- Church music -- African American churches
- African American Pentecostal churches -- Social aspects
- African American Pentecostals
- African American Pentecostals -- Biography
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