The street is my pulpit : hip hop and Christianity in Kenya /
Ntarangwi, Mwenda,
The street is my pulpit : hip hop and Christianity in Kenya / Mwenda Ntarangwi. - 1 online resource - Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium . - Interpretations of culture in the new millennium. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intersections, overlaps, and collaborations -- Cultural preferences, Christianity, and the street -- Hip hop's recasting of Christianity and gospel music in Kenya -- Kama si sisi nani? Juliani's gospel of self-empowerment -- Media and contested Christian identities -- Juliani: lyrical genius with a socially conscious message -- Conclusion: parallel but intersecting paths -- Appendix: Shops selling Juliani's exponential potential.
To some, Christianity and hip hop seem antithetical. Not so in Kenya. There, the music of Julius Owino, aka Juliani, blends faith and beats into a potent hip hop gospel aimed at a youth culture hungry for answers spiritual, material, and otherwise. Mwenda Ntarangwi explores the Kenyan hip hop scene through the lens of Juliani's life and career. A born-again Christian, Juliani produces work highlighting the tensions between hip hop's forceful self-expression and a pious approach to public life, even while contesting the basic presumptions of both. In The Street Is My Pulpit, Ntarangwi forges an uncommon collaboration with his subject that offers insights into Juliani's art and goals even as Ntarangwi explores his own religious experience and subjective identity as an ethnographer. What emerges is an original contribution to the scholarship on hip hop's global impact and a passionate study of the music's role in shaping new ways of being Christian in Africa [Publisher description].
9780252098260 0252098269 0252040066 9780252040061 9780252081552 0252081552
22573/ctt18j5x5s JSTOR
2016005502
Juliani, 1984-
Juliani, 1984-
2000-2099
Christian rap (Music)--Kenya.
Christianity--Kenya.
Music and youth--Kenya.
Youth--Social conditions--Kenya--21st century.
Rap musicians--Kenya.
Rap chrétien--Kenya.
Christianisme--Kenya.
Musique et jeunesse--Kenya.
Jeunesse--Conditions sociales--Kenya--21e siècle.
Rappeurs--Kenya.
MUSIC--Instruction & Study--Voice.
MUSIC--Lyrics.
MUSIC--Printed Music--Vocal.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
Christian rap (Music)
Christianity
Music and youth
Rap musicians
Youth--Social conditions
Kenya
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
ML3921.8.R36
782.421649112
The street is my pulpit : hip hop and Christianity in Kenya / Mwenda Ntarangwi. - 1 online resource - Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium . - Interpretations of culture in the new millennium. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intersections, overlaps, and collaborations -- Cultural preferences, Christianity, and the street -- Hip hop's recasting of Christianity and gospel music in Kenya -- Kama si sisi nani? Juliani's gospel of self-empowerment -- Media and contested Christian identities -- Juliani: lyrical genius with a socially conscious message -- Conclusion: parallel but intersecting paths -- Appendix: Shops selling Juliani's exponential potential.
To some, Christianity and hip hop seem antithetical. Not so in Kenya. There, the music of Julius Owino, aka Juliani, blends faith and beats into a potent hip hop gospel aimed at a youth culture hungry for answers spiritual, material, and otherwise. Mwenda Ntarangwi explores the Kenyan hip hop scene through the lens of Juliani's life and career. A born-again Christian, Juliani produces work highlighting the tensions between hip hop's forceful self-expression and a pious approach to public life, even while contesting the basic presumptions of both. In The Street Is My Pulpit, Ntarangwi forges an uncommon collaboration with his subject that offers insights into Juliani's art and goals even as Ntarangwi explores his own religious experience and subjective identity as an ethnographer. What emerges is an original contribution to the scholarship on hip hop's global impact and a passionate study of the music's role in shaping new ways of being Christian in Africa [Publisher description].
9780252098260 0252098269 0252040066 9780252040061 9780252081552 0252081552
22573/ctt18j5x5s JSTOR
2016005502
Juliani, 1984-
Juliani, 1984-
2000-2099
Christian rap (Music)--Kenya.
Christianity--Kenya.
Music and youth--Kenya.
Youth--Social conditions--Kenya--21st century.
Rap musicians--Kenya.
Rap chrétien--Kenya.
Christianisme--Kenya.
Musique et jeunesse--Kenya.
Jeunesse--Conditions sociales--Kenya--21e siècle.
Rappeurs--Kenya.
MUSIC--Instruction & Study--Voice.
MUSIC--Lyrics.
MUSIC--Printed Music--Vocal.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
Christian rap (Music)
Christianity
Music and youth
Rap musicians
Youth--Social conditions
Kenya
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
ML3921.8.R36
782.421649112