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Like any great Hip Hop track that samples from the genius of its sonic predecessors to innovatively fashion something new, In the Time of Sky-Rhyming suitably builds on earlier scholarship as it charts fresh intellectual terrain by elegantly showcasing the unceasing movement of urban popular cultures. * Richard T. Rodríguez, author of A Kiss across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad * Calvillo offers a compelling story of how brown creatives in search of a soundtrack for their lives helped build what became West Coast Hip Hop. This work tells us as much about their times as it does about our own and the need for 'channels of resonance' * shared beats, voices, networks, and diasporasin today's movements.Erika Gault, author of Networking the Black Church: Digital Black Christians and Hip Hop * The field of Hip Hop Studies has developed into a mature, robust, and rigorous area for scholars. Yet, there has been a missing link, if you will, from the scholarship; the Latinx experience and its connection to West Coast Hip Hop Culture. Dr. Calvillo helps to fill that dearth with his new work In The Time of Sky-Rhyming. This book chronicles key elements in the Culture and allows the reader to see its deeper connections to religion, faith, and rap music. This is a sure game-changer of a text! * Dr. Daniel White Hodge, author of Hip Hop's Hostile Gospel: A Post-Soul Theological Exploration *

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Dr. Jonathan Calvillo is Assistant Professor of Latinx Communities at Emory University's Candler School of Theology. His work examines how distinct Latinx populations build communities of belonging through spirituality and creativity, often in the face of systemic exclusion. He published his first book, The Saints of Santa Ana: Faith and Ethnicity in a Mexican Majority City (Oxford University Press), in 2020.

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