In Search of Soul

Hip-Hop, Literature, and Religion

Alejandro Nava (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2017
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29354-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Alejandro Nava is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Arizona and author of Wonder and Exile in the New World and The Mystical and Prophetic Thought of Simone Weil and Gustavo Gutierrez.

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Introduction

PART ONE: SACRED HISTORIES OF THE SOUL

1 In Search of Soul
2 On Hebrew Soul: De Eloquentia Vulgaria
3 Christian Soul and the Revolt of the Slave

PART TWO: PROFANE ACCENTS OF SOUL

4 In Search of Duende: Lorca on Spanish Soul
5 The Souls of Black Folk: Ralph Ellison’s Tragicomic Portrait
6 From Soul to Hip-Hop: The Rise of the Apocalypse
7 Afro-Latin Soul and Hip-Hop

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Erscheinungsdatum	06.02.2018
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-520-29354-1 / 0520293541
ISBN-13	978-0-520-29354-0 / 9780520293540
Zustand	Neuware