Underground Rap as Religion: A Theopoetic Examination of a Process Aesthetic Religion - Paperback

by Jon Ivan Gill (Author)

This book contends that many practitioners of underground rap have absorbed religious traditions and ideas, and implement, critique, or abandon them in their writings.

Author Biography

Jon Ivan Gill is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College, USA, Associate Philosophy Faculty at Norco College, USA, and Cross-Community Coordinator at the Center for Process Studies, USA. He has written multiple articles on Afrofuturism, religion, hip-hop, philosophy, philosophy of race, poststructuralism, atheism, and creative writing. He is also co-owner of Serious Cartoons Records and Tapes in San Bernardino, Ca. with Michael Adame, and is a member of the Chicago, Il. rap collective Tomorrow Kings and the La Puente, Ca. rap collective Echoes of Oratory Musik.