Religion in hip hop
Subtitle: mapping the new terrain in the US
By: edited by Monica R. Miller, Anthony B. Pinn and Bernard "Bun B" Freeman ; preface by Michael Eric Dyson
Contributors: Bun B, 1973-
Series: Bloomsbury studies in religion and popular music
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781472507433; 9781472509079
Subjects: Rap (Music); Social conditions; Religious aspects; African Americans; Hip-hop
Description: "From rappers who call themselves God to those who wear Jesus chains, the eternal questions that religion and spirituality have tried to answer have always been asked by the Hip Hop community. Religion in hip hop highlights and examines the language of religion in hip hop that can easily be missed"--Talib Kweli Greene.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface.; title: Turning nothing into something is God work' : holiness and hurt in the hood --  -- Introduction.; title: Context and other considerations  -- Anthony B. Pinn and Monica R. Miller; title: Hip hop on religion as/for the embodied self.; title: Searching for self : religion and the creative quest for self in the art of Erykah Badu  -- Margarita Simon Guillory; title: Methods for the prophetic : Tupac Shakur, Lauryn Hill, and the case for ethnolifehistory  -- Daniel White-Hodge; title: Existentialist transvaluation and hip hop's syncretic religiosity  -- Julius D. Bailey; title: God complex, complex gods, or God's complex : Jay-Z, poor black youth, and making "The struggle" divine -- Michael Eric Dyson; title: Hip hop on religion and the "other."; title: A PARTICULAR PAC : ontological ruptures and the posthumous presence of Tupac Shakur  -- James Braxton Peterson; title: #NOWTHATSRELIGIONANDHIPHOP : mapping the terrain of religion and hip hop in cyberspace  -- londa Clay; title: Mapping space and place in the analysis of hip hop and religion : Houston as an example  -- Maco L. Faniel; title: Imperial whiteness meets hip hop blackness : a spiritual phenomenology of the hegemonic body in twenty-first century USA  -- James W. Perkinson; title: Bun B on religion and hip hop : an interview (by Biko Gray) with Bun B -- Biko Gray; title: Approaches to religion in hip hop on the margins.; title: Hip hop and humanism : thinking against new (and old) fundamentalisms  -- Greg Dimitriadis; title: Conspiracy is the sincerest form of flattery : hip hop, aesthetics, and suspicious spiritualities  -- John L. Jackson, Jr.; title: Constructing constellations : Frankfurt School, Lupe Fiasco, and the promise of weak redemption  -- Joseph Winters; title: Zombies in the hood : rap music, Camusian absurdity, and the structuring of death  -- Anthony B. Pinn; title: Real recognize real : aporetic flows and the presence of New Black Godz in hip hop  -- Monica R. Miller; title: Concluding thoughts : rhe future of the study of religion in/and hip hop  -- Monica R. Miller and Anthony B. Pinn -- Afterword.; title: An insider perspective -- Bernard "Bun B" Freeman.