Check out my new article on Twinkie Clark’s growl and the immanent politics of gospel music performance! In it, I argue that an overemphasis on the genre's lyrical messages of hope for the future has tended to obfuscate its practitioners’ sounding of present black suffering.
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“Put a little growl in it”: the transcendent promise of the gospel word and the dissonant vocality of Twinkie Clark
Abstract. This article explores the form and function of the growl in gospel artist Twinkie Clark's performance praxis. Examining several exemplary perform
