Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels
In: Music of the African Diaspora 19
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Earthquake Music and the Politics of Conversion -- 1. "Now I Bang for Christ": Rites/Rights of Passage -- 2. Hip Hop Church L.A.: Shifting Grounds in Inglewood -- 3. Beyond Babylon: Geographies of Conversion -- 4. The Evangelical Hustle: Selling Music, Saving Souls -- 5. Roads to Zion: Hip Hop's Search for the City Yet to Come -- Epilogue: Aftershocks -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Musical Links -- Index