Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture by Smith-Shomade, Beretta E.

Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781978839779)

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Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture by Smith-Shomade, Beretta E.

Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture

$24.95
Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture by Smith-Shomade, Beretta E.

Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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In Finding God in All the Black Places, Beretta E. Smith-Shomade contends that Black spirituality and Black church religiosity are the critical crux of Black popular culture. She argues that cultural, community, and social support live within the Black church and that spirit, art, and progress are deeply entwined and seal this connection. Including the work of artists such as Mary J. Blige, D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Prince, Spike Lee, and Oprah Winfrey, the book examines contemporary Black television, film, music and digital culture to demonstrate the role, impact, and dominance of spirituality and religion in Black popular culture. Smith-Shomade believes that acknowledging and comprehending the foundations of Black spirituality and Black church religiosity within Black popular culture provide a way for viewers, listeners, and users not only to endure but also to revitalize.

This book is also freely available online as an open-access digital edition.

Author: Beretta E. Smith-Shomade
ISBN-10: 1978839774
ISBN-13: 9781978839779
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/11/2024
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
By Beretta E. Smith-Shomade
By Beretta E. Smith-Shomade
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Beretta E. Smith-Shomade is a professor in film and media at Emory University in Atlanta. She is the author of Shaded Lives: African-American Women and Television (Rutgers University Press, 2002) and Pimpin' Ain't Easy: Selling Black Entertainment Television. She has also edited two anthologies: Watching While Black: Centering the Television of Black Audiences (Rutgers University Press, 2013)--a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and its remix Watching While Black Rebooted! The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences (Rutgers University Press, 2023).

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