Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels
"In the 1990s, Los Angeles was home to numerous radical social and environmental eruptions. In the face of several major earthquakes and floods, riots and economic insecurity, police brutality and mass incarceration, some young black Angelenos turned to holy hip hop--a movement merging Christia...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press
2017
2017. |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Music of the African diaspora ;
19. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429938306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Earthquake music and the politics of conversion
- "Now I bang for Christ": rites/rights of passage
- Hip hop church L.A.: shifting grounds in Inglewood
- Beyond Babylon: geographies of conversion
- The evangelical hustle: selling music, saving souls
- Roads to Zion: hip hop's search for the city yet to come
- Epilogue: Aftershocks.
