Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels (Music of the African Diaspora) by Christina Zanfagna
English | Aug. 29, 2017 | ISBN: 0520296206 | 220 Pages | PDF | 10 MB
In the 1990s, Los Angeles was home to numerous radical social and environmental eruptions. In the face of several major earthquakes and floods, riots and economic insecurity, police brutality and mass incarceration, some young black Angelenos turned to holy hip hop—a movement merging Christianity and hip hop culture—to “save” themselves and the city.