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The Soul of Hip Hop: Rims, Timbs and a Cultural Theology, By Daniel White Hodge

The Soul of Hip Hop

Rims, Timbs and a Cultural Theology

by Daniel White Hodge

The Soul of Hip Hop
Paperback
$34.99
  • Length: 250 pages
  • Dimensions: 5.5 × 8.25 in
  • Published: July 23, 2010
  • Imprint: IVP
  • ISBN: 9780830837328

What is Hip Hop?

Hip hop speaks in a voice that is sometimes gruff, sometimes enraged, sometimes despairing, sometimes hopeful.

Hip hop is the voice of forgotten streets laying claim to the high life of rims and timbs and threads and bling.

Hip hop speaks in the muddled language of would-be prophets--mocking the architects of the status quo and stumbling in the dark toward a blurred vision of a world made right.

What is hip hop? It's a cultural movement with a traceable theological center. Daniel White Hodge follows the tracks of hip-hop theology and offers a path from its center to the cross, where Jesus speaks truth.

REVIEWS

"When most scholars, critics and religious voices have taken a reductionist approach to Hip Hop culture and music, Dr. Daniel White Hodge reveals the complexity, spiritualism and inspiration that shape Hip Hop. As a Hip Hop pastor, Dr. Hodge successfully connects the transforming philosophies that exist between Christianity and Hip Hop theology. Insightfully, he underscores the distinctions between the commercialized lyrics and behavior that permeate mainstream media and the more consciousness-raising messages in the content and rhythms of grass-roots Hip Hop. Dr. Hodge boldly invites the reader to contextualize the life and activism of the biblical Jesus in order to appreciate the collective power and relevance of Hip Hop culture."Melvin Donalson, Ph.D., author of Hip Hop in American Cinema
"Daniel White Hodge engages in deep listening, hearing the authentic cry for justice inherent in Hip Hop. He samples the sharpest scholars to forge his own sound---raw, gritty, real and hopeful. Give The Soul of Hip Hop plenty of play."Craig Detweiler, Center for Entertainment, Media and Culture, Pepperdine University, editor of Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games with God
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CONTENTS

Language Disclaimer
List of Tables Figures
Introduction: From Social Isolation to the Presidency: A Theological Reflection on Hip Hop
Session One: A Bird's-Eye View of Hip Hop
1 Back in the Day: Tracing the Social and Theological Origins of Hip Hop
2 Hip Hop the Post-Soul Matrix
Session Two: The Theology of Hip Hop
3 Pain, Misery, Hate Love All at Once: A Theology of Suffering
4 Where Are My Dawgs At? A Theology of Community
5 Jesuz Is Hip Hop: A Theology of the Hip Hop Jesuz
6 Tupac?s Nit Grit Hood Gospel: A Theology of Social Action Justice
7 Finding Jesus in the Shadows: A Theology of the Profane
Session Three: Missionally Engaging Hip Hop's Theology
8 The Scandal of Loving the Ethnos: Beginning the Dialogue of Hip Hop Missions
9 See You at the Crossroads: Jesuz, Hip Hop Missions in Post-9/11 America
Tha Epilogue: Reflections from a Hip Hopper
References Cited
Index

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ABOUT Daniel White Hodge

Daniel White Hodge

Daniel White Hodge (Ph.D., Fuller Graduate School of Intercultural Studies) is CEO of White Hodge Services, offering educational, consulting and speaking services surrounding issues of racial reconciliation, intercultural communication and urban culture. He is also lecturing professor at Eastern University and adjunct professor at Fuller Graduate Schools. A former music industry professional, he serves as a national trainer for the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) and the Urban Youth Workers Institute (UYWI). Hodge is the author of Heaven Has a Ghetto: The Missiological Gospel and Theology of Tupac Amaru Shakur,and The Hostile Gospel: Finding God in the Post Soul Theology of Hip Hop.

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