Urban God talk : constructing a hip hop spirituality /
edited by Andre E. Johnson.
- 1 online resource (xix, 227 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Somewhere underneath the MC's wit and the evangelical word: toward a Christian ethical evaluation of hip hop polemic / The message from the wilderness / "To set at liberty them that are bruised:" exposing liberation theology within hip hop / "Put your hands together": the theological meaning of call-response and collective participation in rap music / "Let the redeemed of the lord say so:" viewing rap music as a form of African-American spirituality / From the same womb of the same struggle: hip hop music with the blues and the gospels / Performing spirituality: Lil Wayne's letters from a New York jail / Rap with soul and pray with flow: youth on hip hop musicality and Catholic spirituality / Embracing the nation: hip-hop, Louis Farrakhan, and alternative music / Oath continuities: the inner structure, meaning, and spiritualism of "Mau Mau" hip hop / My soul knows how to flow: a critical analysis of the history of urban Black Christian-themed rap / Morality, the sacred, and God in Ghanaian hip hop / In the church, in the streets: a spectrum of religious expression in Christian hip hop and spoken word poetry / James W. Perkinson -- Michael D. Royster -- Weldon Merrial McWilliams IV -- Angela M. Nelson -- Darrell James Wesley -- VaNatta S. Ford -- Sharon Lauricella -- Tim Huffman and Amira De la Garza -- Dawn-Marie Gibson -- Mickie Mwanzia Koster -- Erika D. Gault -- Harry Nii Koney Odamtten -- Shanesha R.F. Brooks-Tatum.
African American churches. African Americans--Religion. Hip-hop. Hip-hop--Religious aspects--Christianity. Christianity and the arts. Popular culture--Religious aspects--Christianity. RELIGION / Christianity / History