Underground Rap as Religion: A Theopoetic Examination of a Process Aesthetic Religion

ISBN-13: 9781032086811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 200 str.

Jon Ivan Gill

Opis

This book contends that many practitioners of underground rap have absorbed religious traditions and ideas, and implement, critique, or abandon them in their writings.

Spis treści

The Storied Introduction: Underground Rapper Meets Whiteheadian Thought;1 Reconstructions of Religious Identities and Racial Ideologies in Process Philosophy and Hip-Hop Culture; 2 Underground Hip-Hop as the Flow of Life; 3 De/centering Religion, Hip Hop and the Nature of the "Underground" in Western Scholarship: A Historiography; 4 Receptions of Theopoetic Aesthetics: Definitional and Historical Groundings; 5 Theopoetics of Underground Rap’s Creative Impulse; 6 Multiverse Theistic Creations through Underground Religious Rap; 7 Underground Hip-Hop Culture and the Aesthetic Process of Religion; Epilogue