Music New Perspectives in American Music: “You Are My Dwelling Place”: A Talk by Dr. Alisha Jones

Dr. Alisha Jones, assistant professor of ethnomusicology in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, Bloomington, considers gospel music as an embodied sexual activity in which vocalists simultaneously experience and surrogate pleasure as an essential, unspoken feature of worship leadership.

Dr. Jones presents her talk “You Are My Dwelling Place: Experiencing Black Male Vocalists’ Worship as Autoeroticism in Gospel Performance" as part of the Amherst music department's speaker series, New Perspectives in American Music.

The talk is free and open to the public.