In Search of Soul - Hip-Hop, Literature, and Religion

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-520-29354-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

In Search of Soul explores the meaning of “soul” in sacred and profane incarnations, from its biblical origins to its central place in the rich traditions of black and Latin history. Surveying the work of writers, artists, poets, musicians, philosophers and theologians, Alejandro Nava shows how their understandings of the “soul” revolve around narratives of justice, liberation, and spiritual redemption.  He contends that biblical traditions and hip-hop emerged out of experiences of dispossession and oppression. Whether born in the ghettos of America or of the Roman Empire, hip-hop and Christianity have endured by giving voice to the persecuted. This book offers a view of soul in living color, as a breathing, suffering, dreaming thing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nava, Alejandro

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Andere zeitgenössische Musikrichtungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction

PART ONE: SACRED HISTORIES OF THE SOUL

1 In Search of Soul
2 On Hebrew Soul: De Eloquentia Vulgaria
3 Christian Soul and the Revolt of the Slave

PART TWO: PROFANE ACCENTS OF SOUL

4 In Search of Duende: Lorca on Spanish Soul
5 The Souls of Black Folk: Ralph Ellison’s Tragicomic Portrait
6 From Soul to Hip-Hop: The Rise of the Apocalypse
7 Afro-Latin Soul and Hip-Hop

Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alejandro Nava is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Arizona and author of Wonder and Exile in the New World and The Mystical and Prophetic Thought of Simone Weil and Gustavo Gutierrez.