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

"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 tradit...

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Main Author: Gill, Jon Ivan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Series:Routledge studies in hip hop and religion.
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Table of 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
  • The theopoetics of underground rap's creative impulse
  • Multiverse theistic creations through underground religious rap
  • Underground Hip-Hop culture and the aesthetic process of religion.