The Hip Hop and Religion Reader

Contents

• Contents: Acknowledgements. General Introduction-Monica R. Miller & Anthony B. Pinn.
• Section I Setting the Context, Framing the Discussion.
• 1. Michael Eric Dyson: Performance, Protest, and Prophecy in the Culture of Hip-Hop.
• 2. Anthony B. Pinn: Making a World with a Beat: Musical Expression's Relationship to Religious Identity and Experience.
• 3. Greg Dimitriadis: Hip Hop to Rap: Some Implications of an Historically Situated Approach to Performance.
• 4. H. Samy Alim: A New Research Agenda: Exploring the Transglobal Hip Hop Umma.
• Section II What's the 'Religion' in Hip Hop?
• 5. Monica R. Miller: Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover.
• 6. Joseph Winters: Unstrange Bedfellows: Hip Hop and Religion.
• 7. John L. Jackson: Peter Piper Picked Peppers, but Humpty Dumpty Got Pushed: The Productively Paranoid Stylings of Hip-hop's Spirituality.
• Section III The Religious Aesthetics of Hip Hop Culture.
• 8. Margarita L. Simon: Intersecting Points: The 'Erotic as Religious' in the Lyrics of Missy Elliott.
• 9. Elonda Clay: Two Turntables and a Microphone: Turntablism, Ritual and Implicit Religion.
• 10. Angela M. Nelson: 'God's Smiling on You and He's Frowning Too': Rap and the Problem of Evil.
• 11. Martina Viljoen: 'Wrapped Up': Ideological Setting and Figurative Meaning in African American Gospel Rap.
• 12. Racquel Cepeda: AfroBlue: Incanting Yoruba Gods in Hip Hop's Isms.
• Section IV Hip Hop and/in Religious Traditions. Islam.
• 13. Juan M. Floyd-Thomas: A Jihad of Words: The Evolution of African American Islam and Contemporary Hip-Hop.
• 14. H. Samy Alim: Re-inventing Islam with Unique Modern Tones: Muslim Hip Hop Artists as Verbal Mujahidin.
• 15. Felicia M. Miyakawa: The Five Percenter 'Way of Life'.
• 16. Dervla Sara Shannahan and Qurra Hussain: Rap on 'l'avenue'; Islam, aesthetics, authenticity and masculinities in the Tunisian rap scene. Christianity.
• 17. Josef Sorett: Believe me, this pimp game is very religious: Toward a religious history of hip hop.
• 18. Cheryl Kirk-Duggan and Marlon F. Hall: Put Down the Pimp Stick to Pick Up the Pulpit: The Impact of Hip Hop on the Black Church.
• 19. John B. Hatch: Rhetorical Synthesis through a (Rap)Prochement of Identities: Hip-Hop and the Gospel According to the Gospel Gangstaz.
• 20. Daniel White Hodge: Where My Dawgs At?: A Theology of Community. Judaism.
• 21. Judah Cohen: Hip-Hop Judaica: The Politics of Representin' Heebster Heritage.
• 22. Malka Shabtay: RaGap': Music and Identity Among Young Ethiopians in Israel. Eastern Religion.
• 23. Steven J. Rosen: Hip-Hop Hinduism: The Spiritual Journey of MC Yogi.
• 24. Ian Condry: Battling Hip-Hop Samurai.
• 25. Anthony Y.H. Fung: Western Style, Chinese Pop: Jay Chou's Rap and Hip-Hop in China.
• Section V Hip Hop as Religion.
• 26. Siphiwe Ignatius Dube: Hate Me Now: An Instance of NAS as Hip-Hop's Self-proclaimed Prophet and Messiah.
• 27. James Perkinson: Tupac Shakur as Ogou Achade: Hip hop Anger and Postcolonial Rancour Read from the Other Side.
• 28. Robin Sylvan: Rap Music, Hip Hop Culture and 'the Future Religion of the World'. Conclusion-Monica R. Miller & Anthony B. Pinn. Contributors. Permissions. Index.