Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels

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 an...

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Main Author: Zanfagna, Christina (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: University of California Press 2017
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