Please join me for a conversation on religion and the cultural politics of American popular music this Wednesday at 6pm The Torch Club at New York University. I'm looking forward to delivering this year's Lerner Lecture on Religion and Society for NYU's Religious Studies Program.
Here is brief glimpse of some of what we'll be talking about for the occasion:
. . . the play between religion and popular music...
. . . entanglements between evangelicalism and black culture in the United States since the 1970s...
. . . the influences and exchanges between the genres of gospel, hip hop, and praise and worship music and track performances by a diverse range of artist... and
. . . the interplay between religion, race, media, masculinity and the market in the contemporary moment...
COME THRU!!!!!
In doing so, we will consider a range of performances by a range of musicians, including Chance the Rapper, Kirk Franklin, Fred Hammond, Ron Kenoly, Lecrae, and many more . . .