- Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2014
- Certificate, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, 2007
- M.Div., Yale Divinity School, 2007
- B.M., Oberlin Conservatory, 2003
Alisha Lola Jones
Assistant Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
- jonesall@indiana.edu
- (812) 855-0387
- 800 E. 3rd St., 241
- Office Hours
Education
Research interests
- religious music in the African diaspora
- music of the "Black Pacific"
- western european art music
- global pop music
- masculinities and men's studies
- voice studies
- gender and sexuality
- music industry and arts entrepreneurship
- gastromusicology
- ecomusicology
- future studies
- music, religion and the media
Courses recently taught
- World Music and Culture
- Music and Mysticism
- Introduction to World Music
- Introduction to Western Art Music
Awards & Distinctions
- Inaugural Kovener Fellow, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in Pedagogy, Indiana University 2019 - 2020
- Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award, 2018
- Award for Womanist Religious Research, The University of Chicago Divinity School, April 2017
- Inductee, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Collegium of Scholars, Morehouse College, March 2017
Publication highlights
- Flaming?: The Peculiar Theo-Politics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Music Performance. (Oxford University Press, March 2020).
- “Lift Every Voice: Marian Anderson, Florence B. Price and the Sound of Black Sisterhood”, NPR, August 30, 2019.
- “Singing High: Black Countertenors and Gendered Sound in Gospel Performance,” Oxford Handbook of Voices Studies, Katherine Meizel and Nina Eidsheim, editors. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- “You Are My Dwelling Place: Experiencing Black Male Vocal Worship as Aural and Autoeroticism in Gospel Performance,” for Women and Music Journal, Emily Wilbourne, editor. (October 2018).
- “The Gospel of Liberation and Self-Scrutiny”, Reflections (Yale Divinity School Alumni Magazine), Fall 2017.
- “You’re Jiggling, Baby. Go ‘head, Baby: Fighting Temptation to Move in the Engineering of Worship.” The Feminist Wire. February 15, 2017.
- “The Women Gather: Toward an Ethnomusicology of Afro-Diasporic Women’s Global Reunion” Amerasia Journal. LA: UCLA, 2017.
- “Are All The Choir Directors Gay?”: The Policing of Black Men’s Gender and Sexuality in Gospel Performance. African American Music: An Introduction, Mellonee V. Burnim and Portia K. Maultsby, editors. New York: Routledge. 2016.
- "Pole Dancing for Jesus: Negotiating Masculinity and Sexual Ambiguity Gospel Performance." Chapter contribution to the edited volume, Esotericism in the African Religious Experience: There is a Mystery, edited by Stephen Finley, Margarita Simon Guillory, Hugh R. Page, Jr. London: Brill, 2014.
- "'Playin' Church': Questioning Authenticity in Black Gendered Gospel Performance." Readings in African Worship, Vol. 2. Edited by James Abbington. Chicago: GIA Publication, 2014.
- The bibliographies of "Jennifer Holiday" and "Charles Stith," The African American National Biography, Henry Louis Gates, Jr and Evelyn Brooks-Higginbotham. Editors. London: Oxford University Press, 2007.
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