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1 online resource (247 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface; Introduction; Theoretical and Methodological Approaches; 1 Somewhere Underneath the MC's Wit and the Evangelical Word: Toward a Christian Ethical Evaluation of Hip Hop Polemic; 2 The Message from the Wilderness; 3 "To Set at Liberty Them that are Bruised:" Exposing Liberation Theology Within Hip Hop; 4 "Put Your Hands Together": The Theological Meaning of Call-Response and Collective Participation in Rap Music; 5 ""Let the Redeemed of the Lord Say So:"" Viewing Rap Music as a Form of African-American Spirituality. |
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6 From the Same Womb of the Same Struggle: Hip Hop Music with the Blues and the Gospels7 Performing Spirituality: Lil Wayne's Letters from a New York Jail; Hip Hop and Religion; 8 Rap with Soul and Pray with Flow: Youth on Hip Hop Musicality and Catholic Spirituality; 9 Embracing the Nation: Hip-Hop, Louis Farrakhan, and Alternative Music; 10 Oath Continuities: The Inner Structure, Meaning, and Spiritualism of "Mau Mau" Hip Hop; 11 My Soul Knows How to Flow: A Critical Analysis of the History of Urban Black Christian-Themed Rap; 12 Morality, the Sacred, and God in Ghanaian Hip Hop. |
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13 In the Church, In the Streets: A Spectrum of Religious Expression in Christian Hip Hop and Spoken Word PoetryIndex. |
| Summary |
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, e. |
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Print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
African American churches.
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African Americans -- Religion.
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Hip-hop.
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Hip-hop -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Christianity and the arts.
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Popular culture -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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Perkinson, James W.
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Royster, Michael D.
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McWilliams IV, Weldon Merrial.
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Nelson, Angela M.
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Wesley, Darrell.
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Ford, VaNatta S.
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Lauricalla, Sharon.
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Huffman, Tim.
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De La Garza, Amira.
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Gibson, Dawn-Marie.
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Mwanzia Koster, Mickie.
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Gault, Erika D.
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Odamtten, Harry Nii Koney.
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Brooks-Tatum, Shanesha R. F.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Johnson, Andre E. Urban God Talk : Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality. Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2013 9780739168295 |
| ISBN |
9780739168301 (electronic book) |
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