This interfaith collection of essays on theology in diverse genres of protest music examines Habakkuk, Brazilian eschatology, Black liberation, esoteric Islam in rap, heavy metal as anti-theology, Howard Thurman's relevance to jazz, Santerí a drumming, Jay-Z, Funkadelic, Marvin Gaye, Sweet Honey in the Rock, and the social justice chorale movement.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Heidi M. Altman and Jonathan H. Harwell
1. How Long? Habakkuk the Prophet as Proto-Protest Singer
Andrew Zack Lewis
2. Already and Not Yet: Eschatology in Brazilian Protest Songs (1960s-1990s)
Joê zer de Souza Mendonç a and Allan Macedo de Novaes
3. From "We Shall Overcome" to "We Gon' Be Alright:" How Social Movement Styles Influence Black Liberation Protest Music
Shaonta' E. Allen
4. A Continuing Call from the Voice in the Wilderness: Jay-Z's "Spiritual"
Rev. Santarvis Brown and Brent Swanson
5. From Ghetto to Gods, from Protest to Priest: The (Pro)creative Transformation of Self in Five Percenter Rap and Its Analogies to Sapiental Traditions in Islamic Theology
Martin Abdel Matin Gansinger
6. Wholeness and Hoeness: The Protest for Black Women's Sexual Liberation
Ristina Gooden
7."To Rise Beyond Jesus": Heavy Metal as Anti-Theological Protest
Jackson T. Reinhardt
8. Howard Thurman and the Meaning of Jazz
Daryl Russell Grigsby
9. Conjuring in the Concert Hall: Pedrito Martinez's Batá Drumming in Wynton Marsalis' Ochas Concert
Hannah Marie Junco
10. Free Your Mind: Funkadelic and the Nitty-Gritty Hermeneutic
Kyle E. Brooks
11."Mother, Mother. . .": Contemplating Wounds with Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, Fifty Years Later
Carrie Rehak
12. Singing the Stories of Our Lives: Protest and Praise
Catherine Roma
Epilogue
Catherine Roma with Ysaye Maria Barnwell
