Underground rap as religion : a theopoetic examination of a process aesthetic religion / Jon Ivan Gill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gill, Jon Ivan, author.

Series:

Routledge studies in hip hop and religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rap (Music)--Religious aspects.

Rap (Music).

Hip-hop--Religious aspects.

Hip-hop.

Process theology.

Physical Description:

ix, 189 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Summary:

"Underground rap is largely a subversive, grassroots, and revolutionary movement in underground hip-hop, tending to privilege creative freedom as well as progressive and liberating thoughts and actions. This book contends that many practitioners of underground rap have absorbed religious traditions and ideas, and implement, critique, or abandon them in their writings. This in turn creates processural mutations of God that coincide with and speak to the particular context from which they originate. Utilising the work of scholars like Monica Miller and Alfred North Whitehead, Gill uses a secular religious methodology to put forward an aesthetic philosophy of religion for the rap portion of underground hip-hop. Drawing from Whiteheadian process thought, a theopoetic argument is made. Namely, that it is not simply the case that is God the "poet of the world", but rather rap can, in fact, be the poet (creator) of its own form of quasi-religion. This is a unique look at the religious workings and implications of underground rap and hip hop. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of Religious Studies, Hip-Hop Studies and Process Philosophy and Theology"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Storied Introduction : Underground Rapper Meets Whiteheadian Thought

Reconstructions of Religious Identities and Racial Ideologies in Process Philosophy and Hip-Hop Culture

Underground Hip-Hop as the Flow of Life

De/centering Religion, Hip Hop and the Nature of the "Underground" in Western Scholarship : A Historiography

Receptions of Theopoetic Aesthetics : Definitional and Historical Groundings

Theopoetics of Underground Rap's Creative Impulse

Multiverse Theistic Creations through Underground Religious Rap

Underground Hip-Hop Culture and the Aesthetic Process of Religion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gill, Jon Ivan, Underground rap as religion

ISBN:

9781138307797

1138307793

OCLC:

1112861211

Publisher Number:

99983505494