The Emergency of Black and the emergence of rap
By: edited by Jon Michael Spencer
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
Subjects: Rap (Music); Popular music; Religious aspects; History and criticism; Music; Rap; African Americans; Aufsatzsammlung
Other titles: Black sacred music.
Notes: "A special issue of Black sacred music: a journal of theomusicology ... volume 5, number 1, Spring 1991."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [85]-87) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Jon Michael Spencer; title: Introduction / Jon Michael Spencer; title: Performance, protest, and prophecy in the culture of hip-hop / Michael Eric Dyson; title: The three waves of contemporary rap music / Ronald Jemal Stephens; title: Nation of Islam ideology in the rap of Public Enemy / William Eric Perkins; title: Theology in the hip-hop of Public Enemy and Kool Moe Dee / Angela Spence Nelson; title: The rapper as shaman for a band of dancers of the spirit / Philip M. Royster; title: A feminist analysis of the defenses of obscene rap lyrics / Sonja Peterson-Lewis; title: 125th Street rap session / C. Eric Lincoln.