Someone Has to Care

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Someone Has to Care

The Roots and Hip-Hop's Prophetic Calling

Popular music Christianity Theology

Author: Christian Scharen

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Collection: Short Theological Engagements with Popular Music

Language: English

Published by: Cascade Books

Published on: 8th November 2021

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 6 Mb

ISBN: 9781532612183


Introduction to the Roots of Hip-Hop

Welcome to this exploration of the Roots of hip-hop. The roots of hip-hop, as in: the Roots--a story of one of the most enduring, multi-talented, and successful groups of the past thirty years in any genre--and the story of the roots of hip-hop, that is, the story of hip-hop, a musical culture born in New York's South Bronx during the 1970s.

Alongside the two hip-hop stories I tell here, I also tell the story about what God has to do with the Roots of hip-hop--a theological story, if you will. I describe how, in the process of becoming one of the most creative faith-rooted voices in music today, the Roots' developed a calling as artists.

And I do this, in part, to say that you, too, can discover and live your prophetic calling. You can't help but be inspired by the Roots. Yet the best result of that is that you become inspired to be your most playful, passionate, purposeful, prophetic self in the world around you.

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