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Is God Funky or What? - Black Biblical Culture and Contemporary Popular Music (Hardcover, New edition)
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Is God Funky or What? - Black Biblical Culture and Contemporary Popular Music (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Black Studies and Critical Thinking, 111
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Black music is a powerful art form. Artists' creations often go
where words cannot. The music is special-sacred. However, it's
still frequently shoehorned into the ambiguous categories of
secular and sacred. Is God Funky or What?: Black Biblical Culture
and Contemporary Popular Music complicates the traditional
categories of sacred and secular by exposing religious rhetoric and
contexts of contemporary popular black music and by revealing the
religious-based biblical references and spirituality that form the
true cultural context from which these genres emerge. The personal
beliefs of black music artists often include, if not revolve
around, the heavens. How come we are bombarded by the "thank Gods"
in televised award shows, liner notes, or interviews for songs by
musicians that some millennials might call "ratchet?" Is God Funky
or What? shares anecdotes probing connections between specific
forms of popular black music and religion. The qualifications of
sacred and secular typically depend on context, lyrics, location,
and audience (age, race, religion). Through a woven narrative of
lyrics, godly acknowledgments, recorded and original interviews,
biographies, and recordings from various genres of black music,
this book explores how artists have intertwined views of God,
perspectives regarding a higher power, spirituality, and religion
in creating their music. Their creations make up an organic corpus
called the Artistic Black Canon (ABC). Using the ABC, this book
shares and explores its remarkable interpretations and ideas about
life, music, spirituality, and religion. Is God Funky or What? also
shares how we can better make use of this music in the classroom,
as well as better understand how essential it is to the lives of
many.
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