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Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels /

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"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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Main Author: Zanfagna, Christina, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rap (Music)
Music > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Christian rap (Music)
African American musicians.
MUSIC > Ethnomusicology.
The arts.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
Religion: general.
Religion and beliefs.
Music.
Humanities.
Cultural studies.
Rap (Music) > California > Los Angeles > History and criticism.
Rap (Music) > Religious aspects > Christianity.
California > Los Angeles.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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