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

ISBN-13: 9781138307797 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 190 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.

O autorze

Jon Ivan Gill is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College, USA, Associate Philosophy Faculty at Norco College, USA, and Cross-Community Coordinator at the Center for Process Studies, USA. He has written multiple articles on Afrofuturism, religion, hip-hop, philosophy, philosophy of race, poststructuralism, atheism, and creative writing. He is also co-owner of Serious Cartoons Records and Tapes in San Bernardino, Ca. with Michael Adame, and is a member of the Chicago, Il. rap collective Tomorrow Kings and the La Puente, Ca. rap collective Echoes of Oratory Musik.