Theodore W. Burgh: Is God Funky or What?

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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 recordings from various genres of black music, this book explores how artists have intertwined views of God, perspectives regarding a higher power, spirituality, and religion in creating their music. Their creations make up an organic corpus called the Artistic Black Canon (ABC). Using the ABC, this book shares and explores its remarkable interpretations and ideas about life, music, spirituality, and religion. Is God Funky or What? also shares how we can better make use of this music in the classroom, as well as better understand how essential it is to the lives of many.

Über den Autor

Theodore W. Burgh is a professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He has a BA in music from Hampton University, MA in religious studies from Howard University, and MA and PhD in Near Eastern studies from the University of Arizona. His first book, Listening to the Artifacts, received the Klaus P. Wachsmann Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology.

Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Black Studies and Critical Thinking
Inhalt:	264 S.
ISBN-13:	9781433149481
ISBN-10:	1433149486
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	314948
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Burgh, Theodore W.
Redaktion:	Brock, Rochelle Dillard, Cynthia B.
Herausgeber:	Rochelle Brock/Cynthia B Dillard
Hersteller:	Peter Lang Peter Lang Publishing Inc. Black Studies and Critical Thinking
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstr. 11, D-10178 Berlin, r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com
Maße:	225 x 150 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Theodore W. Burgh
Erscheinungsdatum:	21.12.2018
Gewicht:	0,376 kg

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