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Noise and spirit : the religious and spiritual sensibilities of rap music / edited by Anthony B. Pinn.

Contributor(s): Pinn, Anthony B
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, N.Y. : New York University Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: viii, 214 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0814766994 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780814766996 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Rap (Music) -- Religious aspectsDDC classification: 782.421649 LOC classification: ML3531 | .N65 2003Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : making a world with a beat : musical expression's relationship to religious identity and experience -- African American Christian rap : facing "truth" and resisting it / Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletcher -- A jihad of words : the evolution of African American Islam and contemporary hip hop / Juan M. Floyd-Thomas -- Rap, reggae, and religion : sounds of cultural dissonance / Noel Leo Erskine -- "Handlin' my business" : exploring rap's humanist sensibilities / Anthony B. Pinn -- Bringing noise, conjuring spirit : rap as spiritual practice / Mark Lewis Taylor -- Rap as wrap and rapture : North American popular culture and the denial of death / James W. Perkinson -- The spirit is willing and so is the flesh : the queen in hip hop culture / Leola A. Johnson -- The rub : markets, morals, and the "theologizing" of music / William C. Banfield -- Rap, religion, and new realities : the emergence of a religious discourse in rap music / Ralph C. Watkins.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : making a world with a beat : musical expression's relationship to religious identity and experience -- African American Christian rap : facing "truth" and resisting it / Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletcher -- A jihad of words : the evolution of African American Islam and contemporary hip hop / Juan M. Floyd-Thomas -- Rap, reggae, and religion : sounds of cultural dissonance / Noel Leo Erskine -- "Handlin' my business" : exploring rap's humanist sensibilities / Anthony B. Pinn -- Bringing noise, conjuring spirit : rap as spiritual practice / Mark Lewis Taylor -- Rap as wrap and rapture : North American popular culture and the denial of death / James W. Perkinson -- The spirit is willing and so is the flesh : the queen in hip hop culture / Leola A. Johnson -- The rub : markets, morals, and the "theologizing" of music / William C. Banfield -- Rap, religion, and new realities : the emergence of a religious discourse in rap music / Ralph C. Watkins.

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