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The Disturbing Profane: Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred

The Disturbing Profane: Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred

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Availability:In StockContributor:Joseph R. WintersPublish date:8/12/2025Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478031857ISBN-10:1478031859UPC:9781478031857Book Category:Social Science, Music, ReligionBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Genres & StylesBook Topic:American, Rap & Hip HopSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.6305Product ID:SC498PK1WQ
In The Disturbing Profane, Joseph R. Winters explores how hip hop's religiosity is found in qualities associated with the dark sacred. Rather than purity and wholeness, this expression of the sacred signifies death and pleasure, opacity and contamination, exorbitance and anguish. Winters brings religious studies, black studies, black feminist thought, and critical theory to bear on hip hop to trouble distinctions between the sacred and the profane. He shows how artists like Notorious B.I.G., Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar, Lupe Fiasco, and Nicki Manaj undermine stable meanings of the sacred to reveal listeners' investments in unpleasant realities. Hip hop opens its audience to a volatile notion of the sacred and the unruly qualities of blackness. Moreover, Winters demonstrates that hip hop's dark sacrality makes it inseparable from its expression of, participation in, and resistance to the antiblack and black gendered violence that organizes the social world.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478031857ISBN-10:1478031859UPC:9781478031857Book Category:Social Science, Music, ReligionBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Genres & StylesBook Topic:American, Rap & Hip HopSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.6305Product ID:SC498PK1WQ
Joseph R. Winters is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African and African American Studies at Duke University and author of Hope Draped in Black: Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress, also published by Duke University Press.
Publisher: Duke University Press

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