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Street Scriptures
Alejandro Nava
其他書名
Between God and Hip-Hop
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 2022-05-16
主題
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / General
Music / Religious / General
ISBN
0226819159
9780226819150
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=YlZrEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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This book explores an important aspect of hip-hop that is rarely considered: its deep entanglement with spiritual life.
The world of hip-hop is saturated with religion, but rarely is that element given serious consideration. In
Street Scriptures
, Alejandro Nava focuses our attention on this aspect of the music and culture in a fresh way, combining his profound love of hip-hop, his passion for racial and social justice, and his deep theological knowledge.
Street Scriptures
offers a refreshingly earnest and beautifully written journey through hip-hop’s deep entanglement with the sacred.
Nava reveals a largely unheard religious heartbeat in hip-hop, exploring crosscurrents of the sacred and profane in rap, reggaeton, and Latinx hip-hop today. Ranging from Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper, Lauryn Hill, Cardi B, and Bad Bunny to St. Augustine and William James, Nava examines the ethical-political, mystical-prophetic, and theological qualities in hip-hop, probing the pure sonic and aesthetic signatures of music, while also diving deep into the voices that invoke the spirit of protest. The result is nothing short of a new liberation theology for our time, what Nava calls a “street theology.”