Now a global and transnational phenomenon; hip hop culture continues to affect and be affected by the institutional; cultural; religious; social; economic and political landscape of American society and beyond. Over the past two decades; numerous disciplines have taken up hip hop culture for its intellectual weight and contributions to the cultural life and self-understanding of the United States. More recently; the academic study of religion has given hip hop culture closer and more critical attention; yet this conversation is often limited to discussions of hip hop and traditional understandings of religion and a methodological hyper-focus on lyrical and textual analyses. Religion in Hip Hop: Mapping the Terrain provides an important step in advancing and mapping this new field of Religion and Hip Hop Studies. The volume features 14 original contributions representative of this new terrain within three sections representing major thematic issues over the past two decades. The Preface is written by one of the most prolific and founding scholars of this area of study; Michael Eric Dyson; and the inclusion of and collaboration with Bernard Bun B Freeman fosters a perspective internal to Hip Hop and encourages conversation between artists and academics.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Excellent resourceBy Park LoverExtremely well-written in a style that demystifies "green" and summarizes practices internationally. Possibly tilted towards authors home in U.K. but still is useful for U.S. circumstances.
