TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zanfagna,Christina
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels / 
T2  - Music of the african diaspora
SN  - 9780520968790
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Rap (Music)
KW  - fast
KW  - Music
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Christian rap (Music)
KW  - African American musicians
KW  - MUSIC
KW  - Ethnomusicology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - The arts
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Society and social sciences Society and social sciences
KW  - Society and culture: general
KW  - Religion: general
KW  - Religion and beliefs
KW  - Humanities
KW  - Cultural studies
KW  - California
KW  - Los Angeles
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Open Access
N2  - "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 Christianity and hip hop culture--to 'save' themselves and the city. Converting street corners to airborne churches and gangsta rap beats into anthems of praise, holy hip hoppers used gospel rap to navigate complicated social and spiritual realities and to transform the Southland's fractured terrains into musical Zions. Armed with beats, rhymes, and Bibles, they journeyed through black Lutheran congregations, prison ministries, African churches, reggae dancehalls, hip hop clubs, Nation of Islam meetings, and Black Lives Matter marches. Zanfagna's fascinating ethnography provides a contemporary and unique view of black LA, offering a much-needed perspective on how music and religion intertwine in people's everyday experiences."--Provided by publisher
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/63400/
ER  -