PUBLICATIONS.

My research focuses on Black cultural production in relationship to popular culture. 

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Journal Editorships:

• Guest Editor, “Black Popular Culture” special issue, Africology: Journal of Pan African Studies and Popular Culture Studies Journal, 8.2, Fall 2020.
• Guest Editor, “Religions in African American Popular Culture” special issue, Religions, 10.9, Fall 2019.
• Book Review Editor, Black Sacred Music: A Journal of Theomusicology 8.2 (Fall 1994): 99-143.  

Publications:

• Nelson, Angela Marie. “Defending the Call to Preach in Shirley Caesar’s Gospel Autobiography.” Religions 14.7: 832 (June 2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14070832. 
• Nelson, Angela M. “Shirley Caesar and the Politics of Validating Sexual Agency.” Religions 13.6 (June 2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13060568.
• Nelson, Angela M. “Introduction to the ‘Black Popular Culture’ Special Issue.” Africology: Journal of Pan African Studies and Popular Culture Studies Journal, 8.2, Fall 2020: 5-10.
• Nelson, Angela M. “Introduction to the ‘Religions in African American Popular Culture’ Special Issue.” Religions, 10.9, art. 507 (Fall 2019): 1-4.
• Nelson, Angela M. “Meditation: Kanye West’s ‘Jesus Walks,’ Black Suffering, and the Problem of Evil.” Journal of Hip-Hop Studies 6.1 (Fall 2019): 80-81.
• Nelson, Angela M. “’At This Age, This Is Who I Am’: CeCe Winans, Exilic Consciousness, and the American Popular Music Star System.” Open Cultural Studies 2 (December 2018): 475-485.
• Nelson, Angela M. “CeCe Winans, Black Gospel Music, and the Ambivalence of Stardom.” Religion and Popular Music: Artists, Fans and Cultures, ed. Andreas Häger. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. 29-46.
• Nelson, Angela M. “‘Put Your Hands Together’: The Theological Meaning of Call-Response and Collective Participation in Rap Music.” Urban God Talk: Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality, ed. Andre Johnson. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2013. 55-66.
• Nelson, Angela M. “Studying Black Comic Strips: Popular Art and Discourses of Race.” Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation, eds. Ronald Jackson and Sheena Howard. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. 97-110.
• Nelson, Angela. “‘America, You Know What I’m Talkin’ About!’: Race, Class, and Gender in Beulah and Bernie Mac.” Culture, English, Language, and Teaching (CELT) 12.1 (July 2012): 60-71.
• Nelson, Angela M. “Religious Rhetoric in Tyler Perry’s Play Madea’s Family Reunion.” Rhetoric and Religion. A Special Issue of Memphis Theological Seminary Journal 50 (Spring 2012): http://mtsjournal.memphisseminary.edu/Home
• Nelson, Angela M. “Middle-Class Ideology in African-American Postwar Comic Strips.” From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances, eds. Vershawn Ashanti Young and Bridget Harris Tsemo. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 2011. 175-90.
• Nelson, Angela M. “African American Stereotypes in Prime-Time Television: An Overview, 1948-2007.” African Americans and Popular Culture, ed. Todd Boyd. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2008. 185-216.
• Nelson, Angela M. “The Repertoire of Black Popular Culture.” Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900 to Present) 8.1 (Spring 2009): http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/spring_2009/nelson.htm.
• Nelson, Angela M. “Scholarship about Black Popular Culture.” Black Arts Quarterly (Stanford Committee on the Black Performing Arts) 12.1 (Winter 2007), 5-6.
• Nelson, Angela M. S. “Introduction.” Popular Culture Theory and Methodology: A Basic Introduction, eds. Harold E. Hinds, Jr., Marilyn F. Motz, and Angela M. S. Nelson. Madison: University of Wisconsin Popular Press, 2006. 1-5.
• Hinds, Jr., Harold E., Marilyn F. Motz, and Angela M. S. Nelson, ed. Popular Culture Theory and Methodology: A Basic Introduction. Madison: University of Wisconsin Popular Press, 2006.
• Nelson, Angela M. “‘God’s Smiling on You and He’s Frowning Too’: Rap and the Problem of Evil.” “Call Me the Seeker”: Listening to Religion in Popular Music, ed. Michael J. Gilmour. New York: Continuum, 2005. 175-88.
• Nelson, Angela M. S. “‘Why We Sing’: The Role and Meaning of Gospel in African American Popular Culture.” The Triumph of the Soul: Cultural and Psychological Aspects of African American Music, eds. Ferdinand Jones and Arthur C. Jones. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2001. 97-126.
• Nelson, Angela M. S. “Rhythm and Rhyme in Rap.” “This Is How We Flow”: Rhythm in Black Cultures, ed. Angela M. S. Nelson. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. 46-53.
• Nelson, Angela M. S. “Introduction.” “This Is How We Flow”: Rhythm in Black Cultures, ed. Angela M. S. Nelson. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. 1-4.
• Nelson, Angela M. S., ed. “This Is How We Flow”: Rhythm in Black Cultures. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999.
• Nelson, Angela M. S. “The Objectification of Julia: Texts, Textures, and Contexts of Black Women in American Television Situation Comedies.” Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue, eds. Devoney Looser and E. Ann Kaplan. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. 237-249.

Popular Culture Theory and Methodology: A Basic Introduction (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005)

This Is How We Flow": Rhythm in Black Cultures (University of South Carolina Press, 1999)