A View from the Balcony--Opera Through Womanist Eyes: PRAXIS for Developing a Balcony Hermeneutic of Restorative Resistance by Derricotte-Murphy, Jean
A View from the Balcony--Opera Through Womanist Eyes: PRAXIS for Developing a Balcony Hermeneutic of Restorative Resistance by Derricotte-Murphy, Jean

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

In this theological work, readers are seated in a metaphorical balcony as a counter melody is composed...
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Author: Jean Derricotte-Murphy
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A View from the Balcony--Opera Through Womanist Eyes: PRAXIS for Developing a Balcony Hermeneutic of Restorative Resistance by Derricotte-Murphy, Jean

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

$90.60
A View from the Balcony--Opera Through Womanist Eyes: PRAXIS for Developing a Balcony Hermeneutic of Restorative Resistance by Derricotte-Murphy, Jean

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

$90.60
Author: Jean Derricotte-Murphy
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Jean Derricotte-Murphy
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 08/23/2024
Pages: 274
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781666772241

About the Author
Jean Derricotte-Murphy is a womanist scholar, ethicist, writer, and public theologian. She earned her PhD in Theology, Ethics, and the Arts from Chicago Theological Seminary. Ordained clergy, she serves as associate minister, assistant to the pastor, director of Christian education, and director of the worship and arts ministry at The Historic New Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan. She is also vice president of Safe Sacred Space, a 501(c)(3) ministry in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

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