Beyond Christian Hip Hop: A Move Towards Christians and Hip Hop

ISBN-13: 9780367185114 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 312 str.

Erika D. Gault; Travis Harris

Opis

This book explores the intersection of Christians and Hip Hop and the multiple outcomes of this intersection. It lays out the ways in which Christians and Hip Hop overlap and diverge.

Spis treści

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction Erika Gault and Travis Harris; 1 A History of Christians and Hip Hop-Travis Harris; Section I: Identifying Hip Hop; 2 Blendzville Global: A Conversation with Andrea "M$. Blendz" Castleberry-Travis Harris; 3 If My Faith Had a YouTube: Digitizing Christianity and Hip Hop, an Interview with Beleaf Melanin-Erika Gault; Section II: Irreconcilable Christianity; 4 Black White Supremacists: An Interrogation into ‘Christian Hip Hop’s Relationship with the White Man’s Religion- Daniel White Hodge and Travis Harris; 5 From ‘Gospel’ to Global: A Talk with Anthony "DJ AA1K" Amos Travis Harris;6 "The Prince of Peace Ain't Down with Police Brutality": Gospel Gangstaz Confronting White Supremacy Post-LA Uprising of 1992 -Matthew Linder;7 Skipp Coon: Race, Religion, and Black Radical History in Hip Hop-Phillip Luke Sinitiere;Section III: Boundaries; 8 The Ruptures and Reconfigurations of Identity through Christian Hip Hop in Southern Africa-Ibrahim Abraham and Tuomas Järvenpää; 9 Latinx Innovators in the Emergence of Los Angeles Hip Hop: Expanding the Intersections of Christianity and Hip Hop-Jonathan Calvillo;10 ‘We Gon’ Be Alright’: Kendrick Lamar and the Theology of Affirmation-Darrius D. Hills; 11 The Gospel According to ‘Ye; Kanye West, the Life of Pablo, and Authentic-ChristianityTimothy Welbeck; 12 ‘How You Gon’ See ‘Em If You Live in the Fog’: Theodicy in the lyrics of DMX-Trudy Mercadal; Contributors; Appendix; Index