Braxton Shelley: Race, Power, and the Production of Musical Canons Series
About the Event:
Please join us for the new ISM series entitled "Race, Power, and the Production of Musical Canons."
Our first speaker will be Braxton Shelley, whose talk will be: An Eternal Pitch: Bishop G. E. Patterson's Broadcast Religion.
Please see Zoom meeting details below.
About the speaker, Braxton Shelley:
Minister, musician, and musicologist, Rev. Dr. Braxton D. Shelley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Music and the Stanley A. Marks and William H. Marks Assistant Professor in the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. A musicologist who specializes in African American popular music, his research and critical interests include African American gospel performance, digital culture, media studies, sound studies, phenomenology, homiletics, and theology.
After earning a BA in Music and History from Duke University, Shelley received his PhD in the History and Theory of Music at the University of Chicago. While at the University of Chicago, he also earned a Master of Divinity from the university’s Divinity School. His 2017 dissertation, “Sermons in Song: Richard Smallwood, the Vamp, and the Gospel Imagination,” developed an analytical paradigm for gospel music that braids together resources from cognitive theory, ritual theory, and homiletics with studies of repetition, form, rhythm and meter.
Prof. Shelley’s scholarship has been recognized by a number of academic awards: the 2016 Paul A. Pisk Prize from the American Musicological Society, the 2016 Graduate Student Prize from the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music, the 2018 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award from the University of Chicago Division of the Humanities, the 2019 Adam Krims Award from the Popular Music Interest Group of the Society for Music Theory, the Jaap Kunst Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology, and the Alfred Einstein Award from the American Musicological Society. He has presented his research at Amherst College, Brandeis University, Columbia University, Duke University, Northeastern University, Northwestern University, SUNY-Stony Brook, Tufts University, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Yale University, as well as at the annual meetings of the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music, Music Theory Midwest, the Society for Music Theory, and the American Musicological Society.
His publications include the following essays: “Sounding Belief: ‘Tuning Up’ and The Gospel Imagination,” in Exploring Christian Song, “‘This Must Be The Single’: Valuing The Live Recording in Contemporary Gospel Performance,” in Living the Life I Sing, “Gospel Goes To Church (Again): Richard Smallwood’s Hybridity as Liturgical Compromise,” in Readings in African American Church Music and Worship, vol 2, and “Analyzing Gospel,” in the Journal of the American Musicological Society. His book-length study of African American gospel music, Healing for the Soul: Richard Smallwood, the Vamp, and the Gospel Imagination, will be released in April 2021 by Oxford University Press. His second book project, An Eternal Pitch: Bishop G. E. Patterson and the Afterlives of Ecstasy, is under contract with the University of California Press.
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Topic: Braxton Shelley - Race, Power, and the Production of Musical Canons Series
Time: Mar 29, 2021 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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