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Religion in hip hop : mapping the new terrain in the US / edited by Monica R. Miller, Anthony B. Pinn and Bernard "Bun B" Freeman ; preface by Michael Eric Dyson.

Contributor(s): Miller, Monica R, 1981- | Pinn, Anthony B | Bun B, 1973-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Bloomsbury studies in religion and popular music: Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015Description: xix, 270 pages : illustration ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472509079; 1472509072Subject(s): Rap (Music) -- Religious aspects | Rap (Music) -- Social aspects -- United States | Hip-hop -- Religious aspects | Hip-hop -- Social aspects | African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-DDC classification: 782.421649/112 LOC classification: ML3921.8.R36 | R45 2015Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Turning nothing into something is God work': holiness and hurt in the hood -- Introduction: Context and other considerations / Anthony B. Pinn and Monica R. Miller -- Hip hop on religion as/for the embodied self. Searching for self: religion and the creative quest for self in the art of Erykah Badu / Margarita Simon Guillory -- Methods for the prophetic: Tupac Shakur, Lauryn Hill, and the case for ethnolifehistory / Daniel White-Hodge -- Existentialist transvaluation and hip hop's syncretic religiosity / Julius D. Bailey -- God complex, complex gods, or God's complex: Jay-Z, poor black youth, and making "The struggle" divine / Michael Eric Dyson -- Hip hop on religion and the "other". A PARTICULAR PAC: ontological ruptures and the posthumous presence of Tupac Shakur / James Braxton Peterson -- #NOWTHATSRELIGIONANDHIPHOP: mapping the terrain of religion and hip hop in cyberspace / Elonda Clay -- Mapping space and place in the analysis of hip hop and religion: Houston as an example / Maco L. Faniel -- Imperial whiteness meets hip hop blackness: a spiritual phenomenology of the hegemonic body in twenty-first century USA / James W. Perkinson -- Bun B on religion and hip hop: an interview (by Biko Gray) with Bun B / Biko Gray -- Approaches to religion in hip hop on the margins. Hip hop and humanism: thinking against new (and old) fundamentalisms / Greg Dimitriadis -- Conspiracy is the sincerest form of flattery: hip hop, aesthetics, and suspicious spiritualities / John L. Jackson, Jr. -- Constructing constellations: Frankfurt School, Lupe Fiasco, and the promise of weak redemption / Joseph Winters -- Zombies in the hood: rap music, Camusian absurdity, and the structuring of death / Anthony B. Pinn -- Real recognize real: aporetic flows and the presence of New Black Godz in hip hop / Monica R. Miller -- Concluding thoughts: The future of the study of religion in/and hip hop / Monica R. Miller and Anthony B. Pinn -- An insider perspective / Bernard "Bun B" Freeman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: Turning nothing into something is God work': holiness and hurt in the hood -- Introduction: Context and other considerations / Anthony B. Pinn and Monica R. Miller -- Part 1. Hip hop on religion as/for the embodied self. Searching for self: religion and the creative quest for self in the art of Erykah Badu / Margarita Simon Guillory -- Methods for the prophetic: Tupac Shakur, Lauryn Hill, and the case for ethnolifehistory / Daniel White-Hodge -- Existentialist transvaluation and hip hop's syncretic religiosity / Julius D. Bailey -- God complex, complex gods, or God's complex: Jay-Z, poor black youth, and making "The struggle" divine / Michael Eric Dyson -- Part 2. Hip hop on religion and the "other". A PARTICULAR PAC: ontological ruptures and the posthumous presence of Tupac Shakur / James Braxton Peterson -- #NOWTHATSRELIGIONANDHIPHOP: mapping the terrain of religion and hip hop in cyberspace / Elonda Clay -- Mapping space and place in the analysis of hip hop and religion: Houston as an example / Maco L. Faniel -- Imperial whiteness meets hip hop blackness: a spiritual phenomenology of the hegemonic body in twenty-first century USA / James W. Perkinson -- Bun B on religion and hip hop: an interview (by Biko Gray) with Bun B / Biko Gray -- Part 3. Approaches to religion in hip hop on the margins. Hip hop and humanism: thinking against new (and old) fundamentalisms / Greg Dimitriadis -- Conspiracy is the sincerest form of flattery: hip hop, aesthetics, and suspicious spiritualities / John L. Jackson, Jr. -- Constructing constellations: Frankfurt School, Lupe Fiasco, and the promise of weak redemption / Joseph Winters -- Zombies in the hood: rap music, Camusian absurdity, and the structuring of death / Anthony B. Pinn -- Real recognize real: aporetic flows and the presence of New Black Godz in hip hop / Monica R. Miller -- Concluding thoughts: The future of the study of religion in/and hip hop / Monica R. Miller and Anthony B. Pinn -- Afterword: An insider perspective / Bernard "Bun B" Freeman.

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