Urban God Talk

Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2015
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2105-5 (ISBN)

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Urban God Talk: Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality, edited by Andre Johnson, is a collection of essays that examine the religious and spiritual in hip hop. The contributors argue that the prevailing narrative that hip hop offers nothing in the way of religion and spirituality is false. From its beginning, hip hop has had a profound spirituality and advocates religious views—and while not orthodox or systemic, nevertheless, many in traditional orthodox religions would find the theological and spiritual underpinnings in hip hop comforting, empowering, and liberating.
In addition, this volume demonstrates how scholars in different disciplines approach the study of hip hop, religion, and spirituality. Whether it is a close reading of a hip hop text, ethnography, a critical studies approach or even a mixed method approach, this study is a pedagogical tool for students and scholars in various disciplines to use and appropriate for their own research and understanding.

Urban God Talk will inspire not only scholars to further their research, but will also encourage publishers to print more in this field. The contributors to this in-depth study show how this subject is an underrepresented area within hip hop studies, and that the field is broad enough for numerous monographs, edited works, and journal publications in the future.

Andre E. Johnson is the Dr. James L. Netters Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Religion and African American Studies at Memphis Theological Seminary.

Introduction
Part I. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches
Chapter 1: Somewhere Underneath the MC’s Wit and the Evangelical Word: Toward a Christian Ethical Evaluation of Hip Hop Polemic
James W. Perkinson
Chapter 2: The Message from the Wilderness
Michael D. Royster
Chapter 3: “To Set at Liberty Them that are Bruised”: Exposing Liberation Theology within Hip Hop
Weldon Merrial McWilliams, IV
Chapter 4: “Put Your Hands Together”: The Theological Meaning of Call-Response and Collective Participation in Rap Music
Angela M. Nelson
Chapter 5: “Let the Redeemed of the Lord say so”: Viewing Rap Music as a Form of African American Spirituality
Darrell Wesley
Chapter 6: From the same Womb, of the same Struggle: Hip Hop Music and its Connection with the Blues and the Gospels
VaNatta S. Ford
Chapter 7: Performing Spirituality: Lil Wayne’s Letters from a New York Jail
Sharon Lauricalla
Part II. Hip Hop and Religion
Chapter 8: Rap with Soul and Pray with Flow: Youth on Hip Hop Musicality and Catholic Spirituality
Tim Huffman and Amira De la Garza
Chapter 9: Embracing the Nation: Hip Hop, Louis Farrakhan, and Alternative Music
Dawn-Marie Gibson
Chapter 10: Oath Continuities: The Inner Structure, Meaning, and Spiritualism of Mau Mau Hip Hop
Mickie Mwanzia Koster
Chapter 11: My Soul Knows how to Flow: A Critical Analysis of the History of Urban Black Christian-Themed Rap
Erika D. Gault
Chapter 12: Morality, the Sacred, and God in Ghanaian Hip Hop
Harry Nii Koney Odamtten
Chapter 13: In the Church, in the Streets: A Spectrum of Religious Expression in Christian Hip Hop and Spoken Word Poetry in Atlanta and Detroit
Shanesha R. F. Brooks Tatum

Co-Autor	James W. Perkinson, Michael D. Royster, Weldon Merrial McWilliams IV, Angela M. Nelson
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	141 x 228 mm
Gewicht	372 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
ISBN-10	1-4985-2105-3 / 1498521053
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-2105-5 / 9781498521055
Zustand	Neuware