| The Street Is My Pulpit: Hip Hop and Christianity in Kenya Contributor(s): Ntarangwi, Mwenda (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252081552 ISBN-13: 9780252081552 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $24.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion - Music | Genres & Styles - Rap & Hip Hop |
| Dewey: 782.421 |
| LCCN: 2016003055 |
| Series: Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9" (0.70 lbs) 206 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Cultural Region - East Africa - Ethnic Orientation - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: To some, Christianity and hip hop seem antithetical. Not so in Kenya. There, the music of Julius Owino, aka Juliani, blends faith and beats into a potent hip hop gospel aimed at a youth culture hungry for answers spiritual, material, and otherwise. Mwenda Ntarangwi explores the Kenyan hip hop scene through the lens of Juliani's life and career. A born-again Christian, Juliani produces work highlighting the tensions between hip hop's forceful self-expression and a pious approach to public life, even while contesting the basic presumptions of both. In The Street Is My Pulpit, Ntarangwi forges an uncommon collaboration with his subject that offers insights into Juliani's art and goals even as Ntarangwi explores his own religious experience and subjective identity as an ethnographer. What emerges is an original contribution to the scholarship on hip hop's global impact and a passionate study of the music's role in shaping new ways of being Christian in Africa. |