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Book Review Of Hip Hop In Africa: Prophets Of The City And Dustyfoot Philosophers, Camea Davis
Book Review Of Hip Hop In Africa: Prophets Of The City And Dustyfoot Philosophers, Camea Davis
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
Dr. Davis provides an analysis of Hip Hop in Africa: Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers (2018). Dr. Camea Davis is a poet, educator and educational researcher with a heart for urban youth and communities. She earned her doctorate in educational policy studies with minors in curriculum and instruction and educational technology from Ball State University. She currently works as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate as Georgia State University in the Department of Middle and Secondary Education.
If I Ruled The World: Putting Hip Hop On The Atlas, Travis T. Harris, Simran Singh, Daniel White Hodge
If I Ruled The World: Putting Hip Hop On The Atlas, Travis T. Harris, Simran Singh, Daniel White Hodge
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
“If I Ruled the World: Putting Hip Hop on the Atlas” contends for a third wave of Global Hip Hop Studies that builds on the work of the first two waves, identifies Hip Hop as an African diasporic phenomenon, and aligns with Hip Hop where there are no boundaries between Hip Hop inside and outside of the United States. Joanna Daguirane Da Sylva adds to the cipha with her examination of Didier Awadi. Da Sylva's excellent work reveals the ways in which Hip Hoppa Didier Awadi elevates Pan-Africanism and uses Hip Hop as a tool to decolonize the minds of …
Go Tell It On The Mountain, Ikeogu Oke
Go Tell It On The Mountain, Ikeogu Oke
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
Tenth of ten poems written by the late and great Nigerian Poet Ikeogu Oke.
Reclaiming Our Subjugated Truths—Using Hip Hop As A Form Of Decolonizing Public Pedagogy: The Case Of Didier Awadi, Joanna D. Da Sylva
Reclaiming Our Subjugated Truths—Using Hip Hop As A Form Of Decolonizing Public Pedagogy: The Case Of Didier Awadi, Joanna D. Da Sylva
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
This paper explores how Senegalese Hip Hop pioneer, Didier Awadi, uses Hip Hop as a form of decolonizing public pedagogy that renders the contributions of Pan-African leaders visible to Africa and the world, contributions that are often omitted and vilified by mainstream history. I argue that Awadi’s work provides a strategy for reclaiming oral literature, particularly storytelling, as a legitimate way of knowing, teaching and learning history. In his album Présidents d’Afrique, Didier Awadi uses rap and traditional African music to retell the story of our resistant past through an African frame of reference. The data is comprised of …
Foreword, Travis T. Harris
Foreword, Travis T. Harris
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
This is the Foreword to the special issue. It provides a broad overview of the special issue, a description of the context it is written in and acknowledgment of all those who contributed to "If I Ruled the World."
Configurations Of Space And Identity In Hip Hop: Performing “Global South”, Igor Johannsen
Configurations Of Space And Identity In Hip Hop: Performing “Global South”, Igor Johannsen
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
The spatiality of culture, specifically Hip Hop, and the reverberations between space and identity are the core concern of this essay. In deconstructing and contextualizing the concept of the Global South by discussing the practices of respective Hip Hop communities, this paper aims at laying bare the oversimplifications inherent in those seemingly natural spatial dimensions. The Global South can, thus, not be understood as a concise and objective term. Instead, it implies a highly normative concept and can be made to reveal or conceal specific attributes of the culture in question. Deliberately creating a cultural and artistic discourse in which …
Dedication To Ikeogu Oke, Travis T. Harris
Dedication To Ikeogu Oke, Travis T. Harris
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
This short article describes why this special issue is dedicated to Ikeogu Oke. He transitioned while we were completing the special issue.
Good Thing Going, Ikeogu Oke
Good Thing Going, Ikeogu Oke
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
Sixth of ten poems written by the late and great Nigerian Poet Ikeogu Oke.
An Alternative Visual Narrative: Latoya Ruby Frazier's The Notion Of Family, Madison Schultz
An Alternative Visual Narrative: Latoya Ruby Frazier's The Notion Of Family, Madison Schultz
James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal (JMURJ)
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s body of photographic work titled The Notion of Family (2003-2014) explores the toll the steel industry in Braddock, Pennsylvania, took on the black community there. The history of black Braddock is riddled with social, political, racial, economic and environmental hardship spurred on by the steel industry. Frazier intimately chronicles the lives of three generations of women—herself, her mother, and her grandmother—and their place in that history. The alternative visual narrative that Frazier creates commands viewers’ attention in telling a story that has been largely ignored by the American public. This essay contrasts Frazier’s work with that of …
Foreword, Joshua K. Wright
Meditation – Yeezy’S (Impossible) Love In Fugitivity’S Strings: A Meditation On “Runaway”, James Manigault-Bryant, Lerhonda Manigault-Bryant
Meditation – Yeezy’S (Impossible) Love In Fugitivity’S Strings: A Meditation On “Runaway”, James Manigault-Bryant, Lerhonda Manigault-Bryant
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
Meditation - “Ultralight Beam”: The Gospel According To Kanye West, Jeffrey Mccune
Meditation - “Ultralight Beam”: The Gospel According To Kanye West, Jeffrey Mccune
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
Meditation - On Millennials, Hip Hop, And Faith, Larrin Robertson
Meditation - On Millennials, Hip Hop, And Faith, Larrin Robertson
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
Introduction - Enigma Embodied: The Curious Complexity Of Kanye West, Daniel White Hodge
Introduction - Enigma Embodied: The Curious Complexity Of Kanye West, Daniel White Hodge
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
“There’s no way Hip Hop and religion work. No way!” “I just can’t see anything coming out of religion and Hip Hop. It’s like the two don’t even go together.” “Rap music is of the devil. To say there is any God in it is blasphemous!” These were direct quotes I received when I began my journey into the field of Religion and Hip Hop. I was met with firm opposition and the very notion of combining Hip Hop and religion left many angered, bewildered, confused, but definitely not speechless. It was a trifling time and the very thought of …
Meditation - Kanye West’S “Jesus Walks,” Black Suffering, And The Problem Of Evil, Angela M. Nelson
Meditation - Kanye West’S “Jesus Walks,” Black Suffering, And The Problem Of Evil, Angela M. Nelson
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
The Prosperity Gospels Of Superstardom: Kanye’S Philosophy, Catherine John, Leroy Myers, Zachary Leacock
The Prosperity Gospels Of Superstardom: Kanye’S Philosophy, Catherine John, Leroy Myers, Zachary Leacock
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
Yeezus Is Jesuz: Examining The Socio-Hermeneutical Transmediated Images Of Jesus Employed By Kanye West, Daniel White Hodge
Yeezus Is Jesuz: Examining The Socio-Hermeneutical Transmediated Images Of Jesus Employed By Kanye West, Daniel White Hodge
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
Kanye is enigmatic in many ways. His continuous reference to deity while still embracing a person like 452 makes him worth the study and effort to explore his contribution and effect in the Hip Hop cultural continuum. This article investigates, Kanye West from a theological and spiritual standpoint to provide insights from his theological aesthetics. While the ever-growing field of Hip Hop studies begins to explore religion in Hip Hop, the present work seeks to address this and develop new theologies/theories that fit both a Hip Hop and Black theology context. While the formal discipline of theology in the United …
I’M So Self-Conscious: Kanye West’S Rhetorical Wrestling With Theodicy And Nihilism, Conā S. M. Marshall
I’M So Self-Conscious: Kanye West’S Rhetorical Wrestling With Theodicy And Nihilism, Conā S. M. Marshall
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
Whether Kanye’s plea to God is to intervene because “the devil’s trying to break [him] down,” or that he (Kanye) is “tryna keep [his] faith,” Kanye West’s lamentations communicate his wrestling of succumbing to sufferings within the world. Despite the twelve-year span between “Jesus Walks” and “Ultralight Beam,” Kanye West’s rhetoric in both songs attempt to make meaning of theodicy—suffering; while simultaneously combating nihilism—the lack of hope. As a professed Christian who articulates the multiplicity of God through Jesus and himself (Kanye West), affirmed on his 2013 album Yeezus track, “I am God,” West complicates religiosity and self-consciousness. He does …
I Gotta Testify: Kanye West, Hip Hop, And The Church, Joshua K. Wright, Adria Y. Goldman, Vanatta S. Ford
I Gotta Testify: Kanye West, Hip Hop, And The Church, Joshua K. Wright, Adria Y. Goldman, Vanatta S. Ford
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
The goal of this project, “I Gotta Testify: Kanye West, Hip Hop, and the Church,” is to add a new perspective to the scholarly discourse on Hip Hop and Christianity within classrooms, religious institutions, and popular culture by focusing on Kanye. We chose to focus on Kanye because he has been one of Hip Hop’s most influential artists in the past decade. Furthermore, Kanye is one of the most polarizing celebrities in America and across the globe. His music, fashion, political views, and family (which includes the Kardashians) dominate discourse on social media, blogs, television, and other forms of mass …
Poem - Untitled, Jasmine Mans
Closing Thoughts, Vanatta S. Ford, Adria Y. Goldman
Closing Thoughts, Vanatta S. Ford, Adria Y. Goldman
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
Poem – Footnotes For Kanye, Jasmine Mans
Poem – Footnotes For Kanye, Jasmine Mans
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
“How Great:” Reflections On Kanye’S Best Prodigy, Chance The Rapper, Joshua K. Wright
“How Great:” Reflections On Kanye’S Best Prodigy, Chance The Rapper, Joshua K. Wright
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
Meditation From Rev. Nathaniel Yates, Metropolitan Youth Pastor, Nathaniel Yates
Meditation From Rev. Nathaniel Yates, Metropolitan Youth Pastor, Nathaniel Yates
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
Meditation - Losing Kanye, Cynthia Estremera
Meditation - Losing Kanye, Cynthia Estremera
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
For Colored Girls And Boys Who Have Considered Suicide/ When Prayer And Good Music Weren’T Enough, Joshua K. Wright
For Colored Girls And Boys Who Have Considered Suicide/ When Prayer And Good Music Weren’T Enough, Joshua K. Wright
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
Lauren Chanel Allen, a 22-year-old Christian graduate student at Howard University, struggled with mental illness for years. Like so many blacks, Lauren expected her faith to serve an elixir for her problems, including depression. However, her prayers were not sufficient. When she was unable to find solace in the church, she sought out an alternative source: the music of Kanye West. She shared her story in a 2016 article, “How An Ultralight Beam Helped My Dark Depression,” which she published in Abernathy magazine. Lauren’s story speaks to the disconnect that many millennials have with the church. Nowhere in her article …
Meditation – We Killed Kanye: A Manifesto To The Old Kanye Fans, Tari Wariebi
Meditation – We Killed Kanye: A Manifesto To The Old Kanye Fans, Tari Wariebi
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
Photo Essay: Holding Up The Sky: Wabanaki People, Culture, History & Art, Tilly Laskey
Photo Essay: Holding Up The Sky: Wabanaki People, Culture, History & Art, Tilly Laskey
Maine History
Holding up the Sky is on view at Maine Historical Society through February 1, 2019. The exhibition gallery is located at 489 Congress St. in Portland. Please visit MaineHistory.org for hours and ticket information.
Lost, Saeeda Ullah