Noise and Spirit : : The Religious and Spiritual Sensibilities of Rap Music / / ed. by Anthony B. Pinn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Baker-Fletcher, Garth Kasimu,; Banfield, William C.,; Floyd-Thomas, Juan M.,; Johnson, Leola A.,; Perkinson, James W.,; Pinn, Anthony B.,; Taylor, Mark Lewis,; Watkins, Ralph C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Pinn, Anthony B.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Дата издания: 2003
• Язык: English
• Объем: 1 online resource

Rap music is often seen as a Black secular response to pressing issues of our time. Yet, like spirituals, the blues, and gospel music, rap has deep connections to African American religious traditions.Noise and Spirit explores the diverse religious dimensions of rap stemming from Islam (including the Nation of Islam and Five Percent Nation), Rastafarianism, and Humanism, as well as Christianity. The volume examines rap’s dialogue with religious traditions, from the ways in which Islamic rap music is used as a method of religious and political instruction to the uses of both the blues and Black women’s rap for considering the distinction between God and the Devil.The first section explores rap’s association with more easily recognizable religious traditions and communities such as Christianity and Islam. The next presents discussions of rap and important spiritual considerations, including on the topic of death. The final unit wrestles with ways to theologize about the relationship between the sacred and the profane in rap.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1 Rap and Religious Traditions -- 1 African American Christian Rap: Facing “Truth” and Resisting It -- 2 A Jihad of Words -- 3 Rap, Reggae, and Religion -- 4 “Handlin’My Business” -- PART II -- 5 Bringing Noise, Conjuring Spirit -- 6 Rap as Wrap and Rapture -- 7 The Spirit Is Willing and So Is the Flesh -- PART III Rap and the Art of “Theologizing” -- 8 The Rub -- 9 Rap, Religion, and New Realities -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index