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Is God Funky or What?: Black Biblical Culture and Contemporary Popular Music (Black Studies and Critical Thinking) by Theodore W Burgh; Peter Lang Publishing Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 recording

Who reads Is God Funky or What?: Black Biblical Culture and Contemporary Popular Music (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)?

Author

Theodore W Burgh; Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Publisher

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781433149481

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, History, Music