Can't take my soul: exploring and illuminating the spirituality and spiritual activism within British hip-hop

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2013
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University of Alabama Libraries
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Hip-hop is a transnational musical genre that has historically affected the lives of marginalized youth in powerful ways across the "Black Atlantic." By using a womanist framework of analysis, this thesis illuminates the ways in which three British hip-hop MC's-Akala, Logic, and Lowkey-employ their music to enact spiritual activism. I explore how their music explicitly and implicitly centers on spirituality and seeks to break down the barriers necessary for spiritual awareness and growth through the awakening and/or transformation of consciousness.

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Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
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Women's studies, Spirituality, Music education
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