Dr Robert Beckford is delivering a lecture “Is God a white racist? ‘Woking’ Gospel music in Britain” at Manchester Metropolitan University on Wednesday October 10, 5-6:45pm.
”How might we meaningfully reflect on the church’s complicity with racial terror in the Caribbean? And what is the role of British gospel music in articulating the memory of slavery, its continued impact and its overcoming? Entangling ideas from theodicy (the problem of evil), pentecostal epistemes (prayer, singing) and Christina Sharpe’s “In the Wake: On Blackness and Being” (creative and critical cultural production) this practice-based presentation explores the sources for a new urban ’social gospel music’ genre.”
Admission by ticket only. Book here. Part of Black History Month 2018.
