Teaching Timbre: The Hammond Organ, Black Gospel, and the Politics of Presets

Title: Teaching Timbre: The Hammond Organ, Black Gospel, and the Politics of Presets
Author: Braxton Shelley
Series: Speaker Series
Source URL: https://www.actorproject.org/speaker-series/afrological-perspectives-on-timbre-and-orchestration

Production date: January 25, 2024

Published date: 11 April, 2024

How to Cite APA: Shelley, Braxton (January, 2024). The Hammond Organ, Black Gospel, and the Politics of Presets [Video]. ACTOR Timbre and Orchestration Resource. Retrieved April 11, 2024 from https://timbreandorchestration.org/all-videos/actor-speaker-series/afrological-perspectives-on-timbre-and-orchestration/braxton-shelley/teaching-timbre

ACTOR Speaker Series:
Afrological Perpectives on Timbre & Orchestration

Braxton Shelley

Teaching Timbre: The Hammond Organ, Black Gospel, and the Politics of Presets

Minister, musician, and musicologist Braxton D. Shelley is a tenured associate professor of music, of sacred music, and of divinity in the Department of Music, the Institute of Sacred Music, and Yale's Divinity School. A musicologist who specializes in African American popular music, his research and critical interests, while especially focused on African American gospel performance, extend into media studies, sound studies, phenomenology, homiletics, and theology. Shelley is the author of Healing for the Soul: Richard Smallwood, the Vamp, and the Gospel Imagination as well as the forthcoming An Eternal Pitch: Bishop G.E. Patterson and the Afterlives of Ecstasy. His research has received considerable recognition including the Alfred Einstein Prize, Paul A. Pisk Prize, the Jaap Kunst Prize, and the Adam Krims Award. He received his Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Music at the University of Chicago.