Underground Rap as Religion: A Theopoetic Examination of a Process Aesthetic Religion

Author:   Jon Ivan Gill (California State University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138307797


Pages:   190
Publication Date:   04 November 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Underground Rap as Religion: A Theopoetic Examination of a Process Aesthetic Religion


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"Underground rap is largely a subversive, grassroots, and revolutionary movement in underground hip-hop, tending to privilege creative freedom as well as progressive and liberating thoughts and actions. This book contends that many practitioners of underground rap have absorbed religious traditions and ideas, and implement, critique, or abandon them in their writings. This in turn creates processural mutations of God that coincide with and speak to the particular context from which they originate. Utilising the work of scholars like Monica Miller and Alfred North Whitehead, Gill uses a secular religious methodology to put forward an aesthetic philosophy of religion for the rap portion of underground hip-hop. Drawing from Whiteheadian process thought, a theopoetic argument is made. Namely, that it is not simply the case that is God the ""poet of the world"", but rather rap can, in fact, be the poet (creator) of its own form of quasi-religion. This is a unique look at the religious workings and implications of underground rap and hip hop. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of Religious Studies, Hip-Hop Studies and Process Philosophy and Theology."

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Author:   Jon Ivan Gill (California State University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9781138307797


ISBN 10:   1138307793
Pages:   190
Publication Date:   04 November 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"The Storied Introduction: Underground Rapper Meets Whiteheadian Thought;1 Reconstructions of Religious Identities and Racial Ideologies in Process Philosophy and Hip-Hop Culture; 2 Underground Hip-Hop as the Flow of Life; 3 De/centering Religion, Hip Hop and the Nature of the ""Underground"" in Western Scholarship: A Historiography; 4 Receptions of Theopoetic Aesthetics: Definitional and Historical Groundings; 5 Theopoetics of Underground Rap’s Creative Impulse; 6 Multiverse Theistic Creations through Underground Religious Rap; 7 Underground Hip-Hop Culture and the Aesthetic Process of Religion; Epilogue"

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Jon Ivan Gill is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College, USA, Associate Philosophy Faculty at Norco College, USA, and Cross-Community Coordinator at the Center for Process Studies, USA. He has written multiple articles on Afrofuturism, religion, hip-hop, philosophy, philosophy of race, poststructuralism, atheism, and creative writing. He is also co-owner of Serious Cartoons Records and Tapes in San Bernardino, Ca. with Michael Adame, and is a member of the Chicago, Il. rap collective Tomorrow Kings and the La Puente, Ca. rap collective Echoes of Oratory Musik.

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