Hip Hop & Hymns
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Hip Hop & Hymns
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Narrated by:
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Chantelle Jamieson
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By:
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Mawunyo Gbogbo
About this listen
'Hip hop and hymns: the two would always go hand in hand for me. My life would always straddle both. The sacred and the profane, all living on the same block, all divine in the end.'
Mawunyo Gbogbo is a church-going African Australian girl growing up in the sleepy mining town of Muswellbrook, NSW. At home, her parents fight all the time, and sibling rivalry runs deep. At primary school, Black Is Beautiful until a racist bully dares to tell her otherwise. But at high school, she falls in love with two things that will alter the course of her adult life: the seductive thrill of hip hop music and charismatic bad boy Tyce Carrington. Tyce also feels like an alien in Australia, despite his Aboriginality - or because of it.
When Mawunyo's offered a chance to further her budding media career in New York City at the Bible of hip hop, The Source magazine, she throws herself headlong into the city's heady buzz and hustle - but even as it lures her in, it threatens to derail her dreams.
Hip Hop & Hymns is a tussle between the search for belonging and ultimately accepting who you are, and a clear-eyed, heartfelt story about daring greatly and what it can mean to be Black in Australia.
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- Jacquelyn
- 26-07-2023
A lesson in the power of faith and music
A brilliantly honest and heartfelt autobiography reflecting on race, growing up in a country town, music, love, relationships, mental health and the power of faith.
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- James Cogswell
- 21-07-2022
A refreshing honest and important story
It was so refreshing to listen to a memoir founded on no-holds-barred honesty. Many of these stories will offer comfort to anyone who has faced struggles in their younger years, however they are told from a perspective that may be less familiar to the reader (that of an African Australian growing up in rural Australia). The musical education is just a bonus! A must read / listen.
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