Radical Religious Thought In Black Popular Music

Author : Martin A. M. Gansinger
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 3960676980
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical religious thought in Black popular music. Five Percenters and Bobo Shanti in Rap and Reggae written by Martin A. M. Gansinger and published by Anchor Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is discussing patterns of radical religious thought in popular forms of Black music. The consistent influence of the Five Percent Nation on Rap music as one of the most esoteric groups among the manifold Black Muslim movements has already gained scholarly attention. However, it shares more than a strong pattern of reversed racism with the Bobo Shanti Order, the most rigid branch of the Rastafarian faith, globally popularized by Dancehall-Reggae artists like Sizzla or Capleton. Authentic devotion or calculated marketing? Apart from providing a possible answer to this question, the historical shift of Bobo adherents from shunned extremists to firmly anchored personifications of authenticity in mainstream Rastafarian culture is being emphasized. A multi-layered comparative case study attempts to shed light on the re-contextualization of language as well as expressed dogmatic perceptions and symbolism, attitude towards other religious groups and aspects of ethnic discrimination. Further analysis includes the visibility of artists and their references to practical and moral issues directly derived from two obscure ideologies that managed to conquer airwaves and concert halls.

Author : Martin AM Gansinger
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Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Religious Thought in Black Popular Music written by Martin AM Gansinger and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-22 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro está discutiendo patrones de pensamiento religioso radical en formas populares de música negra. La influencia constante de la nación del cinco por ciento en la música rap como uno de los grupos más esotéricos entre los múltiples movimientos musulmanes negros ya ha recibido atención académica. Sin embargo, comparte más que un fuerte patrón de racismo invertido con la Orden Bobo Shanti, la rama más rígida de la fe rastafari, popularizada mundialmente por artistas de Dancehall-Reggae como Sizzla o Capleton. ¿Devoción auténtica o marketing calculado?Además de proporcionar una posible respuesta a esta pregunta, se enfatiza el cambio histórico de los seguidores de Bobo de extremistas rechazados a personificaciones de autenticidad firmemente ancladas en la cultura rastafari dominante. Un estudio de caso comparativo de varias capas intenta arrojar luz sobre la recontextualización del lenguaje, así como las percepciones dogmáticas expresadas y el simbolismo, la actitud hacia otros grupos religiosos y los aspectos de discriminación étnica. Un análisis más detallado incluye la visibilidad de los artistas y sus referencias a cuestiones prácticas y morales directamente derivadas de dos ideologías oscuras que lograron conquistar las ondas aéreas y las salas de conciertos.

Author : Ian Peddie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501345389
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class written by Ian Peddie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class is the first extensive analysis of the most important themes and concepts in this field. Encompassing contemporary research in ethnomusicology, sociology, cultural studies, history, and race studies, the volume explores the intersections between music and class, and how the meanings of class are asserted and denied, confused and clarified, through music. With chapters on key genres, traditions, and subcultures, as well as fresh and engaging directions for future scholarship, the volume considers how music has thought about and articulated social class. It consists entirely of original contributions written by internationally renowned scholars, and provides an essential reference point for scholars interested in the relationship between popular music and social class.

Author : Fatma Sagir
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
ISBN 13 : 383099396X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rocking Islam written by Fatma Sagir and published by Waxmann Verlag. This book was released on 2021 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music has the universal power to move individuals, peoples and societies. Music is one of the most important signifiers of cultural change. It is also most significant for youth movements and youth cultures. While Islam has a historically and traditionally rich culture of music, religious controversy on the topic of music is still ongoing. However, young Muslims in today's globalised world seek pop cultural tools such as music, and particularly hip hop music, as way of exploring and expressing their manifold identities, whilst challenging Islamophobia, stigma and racism on the one hand and traditional and religious challenges on the other hand. In this volume, following an international conference with the same title, scholars and young academics from a variety of disciplines seek to explore and highlight the phenomena surrounding the two, somewhat artificially separated, realms of music and religion. The contributions not only look into different genres of music, from Tunisian metal over German female hip hop to Egyptian folk, but take the reader on a journey from continent to countries to cities and rural areas and thus give space and time to a widely neglected area of research: that of Muslim popular culture and young Muslims.

Author : M. Grimshaw
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137394110
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Counter-Narratives of Radical Theology and Popular Music written by M. Grimshaw and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique collection, theologians born and formed during the Cold War offer their insights and perspectives on theological relationships with such musical artists and groups as Joy Division, U2, Nick Cave, and John Coltrane. These essays demonstrate that one's personal music preferences can inform and influence professional interests.

Author : Martin A. M. Gansinger
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527585719
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intuitive Instructional Speech in Sufism written by Martin A. M. Gansinger and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sufi tradition remains one of the most mysterious and least understood systems of self-realization. This book demystifies the practice of the sohbet—an ad hoc discourse—as the central instructional tool in the globally influential Naqshbandi-Haqqani Order. It approaches the practice using categories of improvised music to establish a framework for analyzation. Its ritualized formal structure, illustrated via selected talks of Shaykh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani, discloses the underlying—and assumingly primary—function to provoke prolonged states of raised awareness in listeners and condition their sympathetic nervous system. In an extensive discussion based on several years of field research in Cyprus, the book relates this intention to similar practices in other traditional knowledge systems by proposing psychophysical interpretations based on psychology, biochemistry, neuroscience, or quantum physics. It will appeal to scholars and students of Sufism, Islamic studies, and comparative religion, as well as those interested in performance studies and improvised music, interpersonal communication, and education.

Author : Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190916966
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Religions written by Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caribbean is a microcosm of the world. In this very small geographic space one encounters global religions as well as religious practices that are indigenous to the region. This volume provides an overview of Caribbean religions, one that respects the diversity of the religious traditions and the national particularity of the region. It addresses the prominent religious traditions in the Caribbean, with a focus on multiple geographic settings, and examines a cross-section of themes that impact the region broadly and the academic study of Caribbean religion.

Author : Bryan Shih
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568585551
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Panthers written by Bryan Shih and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "October 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party. Photojournalist Bryan Shih, who has been interviewing and taking portraits of the surviving Panthers around the country for years, has partnered with Yohuru Williams, dean and history professor at Fairfield University, to deliver [this] celebration"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Monica R. Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472507223
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion in Hip Hop written by Monica R. Miller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Fred Moten
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452906084
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In The Break written by Fred Moten and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003-04-09 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politics In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively an African American art form and explicitly fused the idea of a black aesthetic with radical political traditions of the African diaspora. In the Break is an extended riff on “The Burton Greene Affair,” exploring the tangled relationship between black avant-garde in music and literature in the 1950s and 1960s, the emergence of a distinct form of black cultural nationalism, and the complex engagement with and disavowal of homoeroticism that bridges the two. Fred Moten focuses in particular on the brilliant improvisatory jazz of John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, and others, arguing that all black performance—culture, politics, sexuality, identity, and blackness itself—is improvisation. For Moten, improvisation provides a unique epistemological standpoint from which to investigate the provocative connections between black aesthetics and Western philosophy. He engages in a strenuous critical analysis of Western philosophy (Heidegger, Kant, Husserl, Wittgenstein, and Derrida) through the prism of radical black thought and culture. As the critical, lyrical, and disruptive performance of the human, Moten’s concept of blackness also brings such figures as Frederick Douglass and Karl Marx, Cecil Taylor and Samuel R. Delany, Billie Holiday and William Shakespeare into conversation with each other. Stylistically brilliant and challenging, much like the music he writes about, Moten’s wide-ranging discussion embraces a variety of disciplines—semiotics, deconstruction, genre theory, social history, and psychoanalysis—to understand the politicized sexuality, particularly homoeroticism, underpinning black radicalism. In the Break is the inaugural volume in Moten’s ambitious intellectual project-to establish an aesthetic genealogy of the black radical tradition