Theology and Protest Music

Heidi M. Altman is an associate professor in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Georgia Southern University. Jonathan H. Harwell is associate director of collection and resource services at the Ina Dillard Russell Library at Georgia College and State University.

Introduction

Heidi M. Altman and Jonathan H. Harwell

1.How Long? Habakkuk the Prophet as Proto-Protest Singer

Andrew Zack Lewis

2.Already and Not Yet: Eschatology in Brazilian Protest Songs (1960s-1990s)

Joêzer de Souza Mendonça and Allan Macedo de Novaes

3.From “We Shall Overcome” to “We Gon’ Be Alright:” How Social Movement Styles Influence Black Liberation Protest Music

Shaonta’ E. Allen

4.A Continuing Call from the Voice in the Wilderness: Jay-Z’s “Spiritual”

Rev. Santarvis Brown and Brent Swanson

5.From Ghetto to Gods, from Protest to Priest: The (Pro)creative Transformation of Self in Five Percenter Rap and Its Analogies to Sapiental Traditions in Islamic Theology

Martin Abdel Matin Gansinger

6.Wholeness and Hoeness: The Protest for Black Women’s Sexual Liberation

Ristina Gooden

7.“To Rise Beyond Jesus”: Heavy Metal as Anti-Theological Protest

Jackson T. Reinhardt

8.Howard Thurman and the Meaning of Jazz

Daryl Russell Grigsby

9.Conjuring in the Concert Hall: Pedrito Martinez’s Batá Drumming in Wynton Marsalis’ Ochas Concert

Hannah Marie Junco

10.Free Your Mind: Funkadelic and the Nitty-Gritty Hermeneutic

Kyle E. Brooks

11.“Mother, Mother…”: Contemplating Wounds with Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, Fifty Years Later

Carrie Rehak

12.Singing the Stories of Our Lives: Protest and Praise

Catherine Roma

Epilogue

Catherine Roma with Ysaye Maria Barnwell