Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels Christina Zanfagna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zanfagna, Christina, 1980- author.

Series:

Music of the African diaspora ; 19.

Music of the african diaspora ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rap (Music)--California--Los Angeles--History and criticism.

Rap (Music).

Rap (Music)--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of California Press 2017

Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2017.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

"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.

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.

Participant:

"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.

Notes:

Based on the author's Ph.D. thesis: University of California, Los Angeles 2010, published with title Holy hip hop in the City of Angels : music, urban space, and the politics of conversion.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-188), discography, and index. and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520968790

0520968794

OCLC:

1085413562

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access