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A View from the Balcony--Opera Through Womanist Eyes: PRAXIS for Developing a Balcony Hermeneutic of Restorative Resistance

A View from the Balcony--Opera Through Womanist Eyes: PRAXIS for Developing a Balcony Hermeneutic of Restorative Resistance

Terrell, Joanne Marie
Derricotte-Murphy, Jean

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Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 1666772240
ISBN13: 9781666772241
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: Aug 23 2024
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In this theological work, readers are seated in a metaphorical balcony as a counter melody is composed within America's operatic tradition. By using imaginary opera glasses, readers are invited to critically view American society and history. The most popular folk songs of white Southerners, Western settlers, and Northern elites were composed from chords of colonialism, white supremacy, patriarchy, hegemony, and xenophobia--forms of anthropological poverty. These songs were, and remain, the most discordant melodies heard by indigenous and enslaved persons in America. Indicting the church for its complicity in these oppressions, this work offers the reader a historical glimpse at the philosophical and religious underpinnings of systemic racism. A new healing hermeneutic, the balcony hermeneutic, enables the reader to view, critique, assess, correct, and reverse the devastating consequences of anthropological poverty. By taking a reversed gaze of traditional Western Eurocentric systems of knowledge production, through theomusicology, this work privileges the voices of indigenous scholars--philosophers, anthropologists, theologians, and performers--to sing a new song as we correct negative narratives and lyrics through resistance operatic performances.

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