{"product_id":"is-god-funky-or-what-rochelle-brock-9781433149498","title":"Is God Funky or What?: Black Biblical Culture and Contemporary Popular Music","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlack music is a powerful art form. Artists' creations often go where words cannot. The music is special--sacred. However, it's still frequently shoehorned into the ambiguous categories of secular and sacred. \u003cem\u003eIs God Funky or What?: Black Biblical Culture and Contemporary Popular Music\u003c\/em\u003e complicates the traditional categories of sacred and secular by exposing religious rhetoric and contexts of contemporary popular black music and by revealing the religious-based biblical references and spirituality that form the true cultural context from which these genres emerge. The personal beliefs of black music artists often include, if not revolve around, the heavens. How come we are bombarded by the \"thank Gods\" in televised award shows, liner notes, or interviews for songs by musicians that some millennials might call \"ratchet?\"\u003cem\u003e Is God Funky or What?\u003c\/em\u003e shares anecdotes probing connections between specific forms of popular black music and religion. The qualifications of sacred and secular typically depend on context, lyrics, location, and audience (age, race, religion). Through a woven narrative of lyrics, godly acknowledgments, recorded and original interviews, biographies, and recordings from various genres of black music, this book explores how artists have intertwined views of God, perspectives regarding a higher power, spirituality, and religion in creating their music. Their creations make up an organic corpus called the Artistic Black Canon (\u003cem\u003eABC\u003c\/em\u003e). Using the \u003cem\u003eABC\u003c\/em\u003e, this book shares and explores its remarkable interpretations and ideas about life, music, spirituality, and religion. \u003cem\u003eIs God Funky or What?\u003c\/em\u003e also shares how we can better make use of this music in the classroom, as well as better understand how essential it is to the lives of many.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rochelle Brock,Theodore W. Burgh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1433149494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781433149498\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/28\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Rochelle Brock","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088237113599,"sku":"9781433149498","price":135.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_38a9b457-821d-4e5a-9cc0-dcce00dcc912.jpg?v=1769103815","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/is-god-funky-or-what-rochelle-brock-9781433149498","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}