“Florida Church Leaders Preach Hip-Hop Style”
Read a June 17, 2013 article about the differentiation of traditional hiphop to Gospel hiphop and the positive messages the latter preaches.
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“The music industry takes sales as gospel”
According to The Boston Globe’s Dec. 3, 2006, article Christian and gospel music is the one growing music category; sales in 2007 were up 11.6 percent. That popularity is recognized at conferences and music award ceremonies, where Christian rap or hiphop is increasingly included as a category.
“Hip-Hop Theologians and Preachers”
Read a May 13, 2013 Christianity Today article that lists and explores artists shaping the Christian hiphop movement.
“Starting a Dialogue with Hip-Hop”
Read a June 18, 2013 Christianity Today interview with Christian hiphop artist Daniel White and his understanding of “theomusicology.”
“After Turning Theological, Christian Hip-Hop Turns Critical”
Read a May 30, 2013 Christianity Today article about the “new phase” that Christian hiphop is supposedly to be moving into.
“Black Youth Project”
The Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago surveyed 1,590 African-Americans, whites and Latinos aged 15 to 25 in several Midwest cities on subjects including rap music, premarital sex, politics and the “color-blind” society. The results included: 58 percent of black youth listen to rap music daily, compared with 45 percent of Latinos and 23 percent of […]
Michael G. Datcher
Michael G. Datcher, clinical assistant professor of English at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, co-edited Tough Love: The Life and Death of Tupac Shakur (BlackWords Inc., 1996). He can discuss criticism of rap music and of the hiphop ethos.
Kathleen Sands
Kathleen Sands, an associate professor of American studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is the author of Escape from Paradise: Evil and Tragedy in Feminist Theology. She says that in the 1970s, with the onset of liberation theology, religious scholars moved from thinking of evil as an absence of the good to viewing sin as […]
Jessica Ralph
Dancer Jessica Ralph, a member of the National Baptist Convention USA, directs workshops using hiphop, liturgical dance and other art forms in a religious context. She is a member of the World Council of Churches’ transformation team, a group with varied backgrounds and talents who lead classes and workshops.