Noise and Spirit: The Religious and Spiritual Sensibilities of R

Noise and SpiritThe Religious and Spiritual Sensibilities of Rap Music\nAuthor(s): Anthony B. Pinn\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814766996, 978-0814766996\nSynopsis\nRap music is often seen as a Black secular response to pressing issues of our time. Yet, like spirituals, the blues, and gospel music, rap has deep connections to African American religious traditions.\n Noise and Spirit explores the diverse religious dimensions of rap stemming from Islam (including the Nation of Islam and Five Percent Nation), Rastafarianism, and Humanism, as well as Christianity. The volume examines rap's dialogue with religious traditions, from the ways in which Islamic rap music is used as a method of religious and political instruction to the uses of both the blues and Black women's rap for considering the distinction between God and the Devil.\n The first section explores rap's association with more easily r.