Street Scriptures: Between God and Hip-Hop Nava Alejandro
Street Scriptures: Between God and Hip-Hop Nava Alejandro This book explores an important aspect of hip-hop that is rarely considered: its deep entanglement with spiritual life.The world of hip-hop…
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Street Scriptures: Between God and Hip-Hop Nava Alejandro
This book explores an important aspect of hip-hop that is rarely considered: its deep entanglement with spiritual life.The world of hip-hop is saturated with religion, but rarely is that element given serious consideration. Street Scriptures offers a refreshingly earnest and beautifully written journey through hip-hop's deep entanglement with the sacred.Nava analyzes the religious heartbeat in hip-hop, looking at crosscurrents of the sacred and profane in rap, reggaeton, and Latinx hip-hop today. In Street Scriptures, Alejandro Nava focuses our attention on this aspect of the music and culture in a fresh way, combining his profound love of hip-hop, his passion for racial and social justice, and his deep theological knowledge.
Augustine and William James, Nava examines Ranging from Nas, Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper, Lauryn Hill, and Cardi B to St.