The hip hop and religion reader
By: edited by Monica R. Miller and Anthony B. Pinn
Edition: 1 [edition].
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780415741002; 9780415741019; 9781315748399
Subjects: Religion; African Americans; Hip-hop; Hip-Hop
Description: Edited by two recognized scholars of African-American religion and culture, this reader, the first of its kind, provides the essential texts for an important and emerging field of study -- religion and hip hop. Until now, the discipline of religious studies lacked a consistent and coherent text that highlights the developing work at the intersections of hip hop, religion and theology. Moving beyond an institutional understanding of religion and offering a multidimensional assortment of essays, this new volume charts new ground by bringing together voices who, to this point, have been a disparate and scattered few. Comprehensively organized with the foundational and most influential works that continue to provide a base for current scholarship, The Hip Hop and Religion Reader frames the lively and expanding conversation on hip hop's influence on the academic study of religion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: General introduction / -- Monica R. Miller -- and -- Anthony B. Pinn -- Part I: Setting the context, framing the discussion.; title: Performance, protest, and prophecy in the culture of hip-hop  -- Michael Eric Dyson ;; title: Making a world with a beat : musical expression's relationship to religious identity and experience  -- Anthony B. Pinn ;; title: "Hip hop to rap : some implications of an historically situated approach to performance  -- Greg Dimitriadis ;; title: A new research agenda : exploring the transglobal hip hop Umma  -- H. Samy Alim -- Part II: What's the "religion" in hip hop?; title: Don't judge a book by it's cover  -- Monica R. Miller ;; title: Unstrange bedfellows : hip hop and religion  -- Joseph Winters ;; title: Peter piper picked peppers, but Humpty Dumpty got pushed : the productively paranoid stylings of hip-hop's spirituality  -- John L. Jackson Jr. -- Part III: The religious aesthetics of hip hop culture.; title: Intersecting points : the 'erotic as religious' in the lyrics of Missy Elliott  -- Margarita L. Simon Guillory ;; title: Two turntables and a microphone : turntablism, ritual and implicit religion  -- Elonda Clay ;; title: 'God's smiling on you and he's frowning too' : rap and the problem of evil  -- Angela M. Nelson ;; title: 'Wrapped up' : ideological setting and figurative meaning in African-American gospel rap  -- Martina Viljoen ;; title: AfroBlue : incanting Yoruba gods in hip hop's isms  -- Racquel Cepeda -- Part IV: Hip hop and/in religious traditions. Islam.; title: A jihad of words : the evolution of African American Islam and contemporary hip-hop  -- Juan M. Floyd-Thomas ;; title: Re-inventing Islam with unique modern ones : Muslim hip hop artists as verbal mujahidin  -- H. Samy Alim ;; title: The five percenter 'way of life'  -- Felicia Miyakawa ;; title: Rap on L'avenue' : Islam, aesthetics, authenticity and masculinities in the Tunisian rap scene  -- Dervla Sara Shannahan -- and -- Qurra Hussain -- Christianity.; title: Believe me, this pimp game is very religious : toward a religious history of hip hop  -- Josef Sorett ;; title: Put down the pimp stick to pick up the pulpit  -- Cheryl Kirk-Duggan -- and -- Marlon F. Hall ;; title: Rhetorical synthesis through a (rap)prochement of identities : hip-hop and the gospel according to the Gospel Gangstaz  -- John B. Hatch ;; title: Where are my dawgs at? : a theology of community  -- Daniel White Hodge -- Judaism.; title: Hip-hop Judaica : the politics of representin' Heebster heritage  -- Judah Cohen ;; title: 'RaGap' : music and identity among young Ethiopians in Israel  -- Malka Shabtay -- Eastern religion.; title: Hip-hop Hinduism : the spiritual journey of MC Yogi  -- Steven J. Rosen ;; title: Battling hip-hop samurai  -- Ian Condry ;; title: Western style, Chinese pop : Jay Chou's rap and hip-hop in China  -- Anthony Y.H. Fung -- Part V: Hip hop as religion.; title: Hate me now : an instance of NAS as hip-hop's self-proclaimed prophet and messiah  -- Siphiwe Ignatius Dube ;; title: Tupac Shakur as Ogou Achade : hip hop anger and postcolonial rancour read from the other side  -- James Perkinson ;; title: Rap music, hip-hop culture and 'the future religion of the world'  -- Robin Sylvan -- Conclusion:; title: Hip hop and or in religion and other questions -- Monica R. Miller-- and-- Anthony B. Pinn.