Crawley, Ashon T. ~ Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility. Ch 2 “Shout” Crawley’s book theorizes Blackpentecostalism (BP) as an extra-subjective mode of being together—grounded in, and as a celebration of, the flesh. As a “way of life” (138) based on itinerancy and choreosonicity, BP is ultimately a (non)being, or, as he puts it, a “being beside oneself in the service of the other” (5). Methodologically, it is… Read More
Barbara Fuchs ~ Cultural Mimesis, Syncretism: “Virtual Spaniards” Fuchs, Barbara ~ Virtual Spaniards Barbara Fuchs remains to me one of the clearest voices articulating the inexorable Moorishness of the Spanish past and present. This kind of cultural entanglement is of course largely due to the history of Iberian Islam: the Mediterranean “chronotope” from which Spain inherits its cultural and historical background, “whose horizons… Read More