Name/Title
Urban God talk :constructing a hip hop spirituality /edited by Andre E. Johnson.Description
Somewhere underneath the MC's wit and the evangelical word: toward a Christian ethical evaluation of hip hop polemic /James W. Perkinson --The message from the wilderness /Michael D. Royster --"To set at liberty them that are bruised:" exposing liberation theology within hip hop /Weldon Merrial McWilliams IV --"Put your hands together": the theological meaning of call-response and collective participation in rap music /Angela M. Nelson --"Let the redeemed of the lord say so:" viewing rap music as a form of African-American spirituality /Darrell James Wesley --From the same womb of the same struggle: hip hop music with the blues and the gospels /VaNatta S. Ford --Performing spirituality: Lil Wayne's letters from a New York jail /Sharon Lauricella --Rap with soul and pray with flow: youth on hip hop musicality and Catholic spirituality /Tim Huffman and Amira De la Garza --Embracing the nation: hip-hop, Louis Farrakhan, and alternative music /Dawn-Marie Gibson --Oath continuities: the inner structure, meaning, and spiritualism of "Mau Mau" hip hop /Mickie Mwanzia Koster --My soul knows how to flow: a critical analysis of the history of urban Black Christian-themed rap /Erika D. Gault --Morality, the sacred, and God in Ghanaian hip hop /Harry Nii Koney Odamtten --In the church, in the streets: a spectrum of religious expression in Christian hip hop and spoken word poetry /Shanesha R.F. Brooks-Tatum.
xix, 227 pages ;24 cmBook Details
Publication Subjects
African American churches.
African Americans--Religion.
Hip-hop.
Hip-hop--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Christianity and the arts.
Popular culture--Religious aspects--Christianity.Call No.
BR563 .N4 U73 2013ISBN
9780739168295, 0739168290, 9780739168301, 0739168304LCCN
2013022650Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Carrier type: volumerdacarrier
Media type: unmediatedrdamedia
Date: [2013]