Southern gospel sissies : evangelical music, queer spirituality, and the plays of Del Shores / by Douglas Harrison

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Southern gospel sissies : evangelical music, queer spirituality, and the plays of Del Shores / by Douglas Harrison

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National Library of New Zealand

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Index New Zealand

Description

Explores the paradox of gay men involved in US southern (white) gospel music, which might be fairly described as the soundtrack for fundamentalist Christianity in America. Suggests that the intense antipathy among the majority of fundamentalist Protestant evangelicals in America toward homosexuality is often thought to leave little room for non-normative identities or experiences within evangelicalism, yet surreptitious but persistent traces of queer experience within the southern gospel tr...

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Journal

Date created

Jun 2009

Creator

Harrison, Douglas, (Florida Gulf Coast University, Dept of Language and Literature)

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http://natlib.govt.nz/records/21169735

Related subjects

Gospel music / Evangelicalism -- Influence / Religious fundamentalism / Gay men -- Religious life / Gay men -- Identity / Gay men's writings, American

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