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Gods, God, & Soul Food: Young Black Spirituality in Rap Music

Contrary to popular belief, discussions of morality, spiritual sensibilities, and religion are major themes in the lyrics of rap music. The current study provides an exploratory content analysis of rap lyrics in an effort to better understand the ways in which rap artists and audiences thought and think about their spirituality. Results indicate that there existed a fervent and nuanced discourse around spirituality and its various forms during the rise of rap music between the mid 1990s and early millennium.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UMIAMI/oai:scholarlyrepository.miami.edu:oa_dissertations-1447
Date09 July 2010
CreatorsHarris, Christopher S.
PublisherScholarly Repository
Source SetsUniversity of Miami
Detected LanguageEnglish
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