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Article: Noise and Spirit: The Religious and Spiritual Sensibilities of Rap Music.(Book Review)
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- Sociology of Religion
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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Noise and Spirit: The Religious and Spiritual Sensibilities of Rap Music. ANTHONY B. PINN (Ed.). New York: New York University Press, 2003, 192p.; $18.00 (paper).
Noted religious studies scholar Anthony B. Pinn and the eight other contributing researchers to this book have dared to go where no other empirical work on rap music and its tie to religion have gone before. The idea for this study germinated from a challenge to the text's editor, first posed by a colleague, to find a plausible answer to this question: Is rap music really the "polar opposite" of religion or does it too share the traditional spiritual root connection like its cousin music genres Jazz, ...