The Street Is My Pulpit

Hip Hop and Christianity in Kenya

Mwenda Ntarangwi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

206 Seiten

2016
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08155-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Mwenda Ntarangwi is an associate professor of anthropology at Calvin College. He is the author of East African Hip Hop: Youth Culture and Globalization .

Erscheinungsdatum	15.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Interp Culture New Millennium
Zusatzinfo	6 black and white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	313 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-252-08155-2 / 0252081552
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08155-2 / 9780252081552
Zustand	Neuware