Island Gospel : Pentecostal music and identity in Jamaica and the United States /

Pentecostals throughout Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora use music to declare what they believe and where they stand in relation to religious and cultural outsiders. Yet the inclusion of secular music forms like ska, reggae and dancehall complicated music's place in social and ritual practice,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Butler, Melvin (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
Series:	African American music in global perspective.
Subjects:	Church music > Pentecostal Churches. Church music > Jamaica. Church music > United States.

Table of Contents:

Boundaries and flows : music in Jamaican Pentecostal churches at home and abroad
Perfecting holiness : musical theologies of piety and pleasure
The anointing makes the difference : power, presence, and gendered worship
The old-time way : nostalgia, tradition, and testimony
Performing ethnicity : style, transcendence, and African American gospel
Conclusion : identity, the Holy Spirit, and the global community.