Subversive song: Imagining Colossians 1:15-20 as a social protest hymn in the context of Roman empire
A connection exists between the Christological hymn of praise and protest in Col 1:15-20 and popular protest music. The connection is the lyrical ability to transform political and socio-cultural realities, as well as to empower and mobilize protest and resistance against imperial power and coercive...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2019]
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Review and expositor
Year: 2019, Volume: 116, Issue: 4, Pages: 421-435 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CG Christianity and Politics HC New Testament NBF Christology TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Billie Holiday
B Resistance B Empire B Christian B Songs B Hymns B Bible. Kolosserbrief 1,15-20 |
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| Summary: | A connection exists between the Christological hymn of praise and protest in Col 1:15-20 and popular protest music. The connection is the lyrical ability to transform political and socio-cultural realities, as well as to empower and mobilize protest and resistance against imperial power and coercive structures of domination. A special focus is on Billie Holiday's song, "Strange Fruit," a contemporary model of a protest song in comparison to Col 1:15-20. In the comparison, the Colossians hymn draws upon the political ideology and imagery of the Roman Empire in the form of a counter-discourse, as was Jewish resistance poetry, in ways analogous to how Holiday's "Strange Fruit" evokes the imagery of white racial terror for the sake of raising political consciousness. |
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| ISSN: | 2052-9449 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review and expositor
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0034637319878790 |