A book review is presented for Ashon T. Crawley, Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. 320 pp.
Author Biography
Braxton D. Shelley is an assistant professor in Harvard University's music department and the Stanley A. Marks and William H. Marks Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute. He was the 2016 recipient of the Paul A. Pisk Prize from the American Musicological Society. Shelley completed a PhD in the history and theory of music and a master of divinity at the University of Chicago. He earned a BA in music and history from Duke University. In his doctoral dissertation, “Sermons in Song: Richard Smallwood, the Vamp, and the Gospel Imagination,” Shelley’s analysis of gospel music braids cognitive theory, ritual theory, and preaching with studies of repetition, form, rhythm, and meter.
Shelley, Braxton D.
(2019)
"Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility,"
Yale Journal of Music & Religion:
Vol. 5:
No.
2, Article 12.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17132/2377-231X.1183
