TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zanfagna,Christina
TI  - Holy hip hop in the City of Angels
T2  - Music of the african diaspora
SN  - 9780520968790
AV  - ML3921.8.R36 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Rap (Music)
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - California
KW  - Los Angeles
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Cultural studies
KW  - Humanities
KW  - Music
KW  - Religion and beliefs
KW  - Religion: general
KW  - Society and culture: general
KW  - Society and social sciences Society and social sciences
KW  - The arts
KW  - MUSIC
KW  - Ethnomusicology
KW  - African American musicians
KW  - Christian rap (Music)
KW  - gospel rap
KW  - zion
KW  - hip hop culture
KW  - conversion
KW  - church
KW  - los angeles
KW  - earthquake
KW  - christianity
KW  - holy hip hop
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-188), and discography; 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; "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
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://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1w8h1sj
ER  -