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In Search of Soul

Hip-Hop, Literature, and Religion

By (author) Alejandro Nava
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: University of California Press, Berkerley, United States
Published: 12th Sep 2017
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 20mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN-10: 0520293541
ISBN-13: 9780520293540
Barcode No: 9780520293540
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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.

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"Nava has produced an interpretive angle on the study of hip-hop not seen before. It provides a perspective that challenges the notion that hip-hop music has never been religious." * America * "This is a thoroughly insightful and informative volume on the meaning of "soul" through the lens of literary analysis, music, and religion." * Horizons in Biblical Theology *