Hip-Hop Redemption: Finding God in the Rhythm and the Rhyme (Engaging Culture)

Hip-Hop Redemption: Finding God in the Rhythm and the Rhyme (Engaging Culture) Review

Hip-hop culture is experiencing a sea change today that has implications for evangelism, worship, and spiritual practices. Yet Christians have often failed to interpret this culture with sensitivity. Sociologist, preacher, pop-culture expert, and DJ Ralph Watkins understands that while there is room for a critique of mainstream hip-hop and culture, by listening more intently to the music's story listeners can hear a prophet crying out, sharing the pain of a generation that feels as though it hasn't been heard. His accessible, balanced engagement reveals what is inherently good and redeeming in hip-hop and rap music and uses that culture as a lens to open up the power of the Bible for ministry to a generation.

Sing-Along, Phonics Fun: Learning to Read with Rhyme, Rhythm, and Repetitions

Sing-Along, Phonics Fun: Learning to Read with Rhyme, Rhythm, and Repetitions Review

This book and CD set is perfect for preschoolers and primary-grade children, helping them develop phonemic awareness and teaching phonics using word families. Children play with the sounds of language through rhyme and song. The music is adapted from traditional tunes sung in the primary grades.

Rhythm, Music, and the Brain: Scientific Foundations and Clinical Applications (Studies on New Music Research)

Rhythm, Music, and the Brain: Scientific Foundations and Clinical Applications (Studies on New Music Research) Review

With the advent of modern cognitive neuroscience and new tools of studying the human brain "live," music as a highly complex, temporally ordered and rule-based sensory language quickly became a fascinating topic of study. The question of "how" music moves us, stimulates our thoughts, feelings, and kinesthetic sense, and how it can reach the human experience in profound ways is now measured with the advent of modern cognitive neuroscience. The goal of Rhythm, Music and the Brain is an attempt to bring the knowledge of the arts and the sciences and review our current state of study about the brain and music, specifically rhythm.

The author provides a thorough examination of the current state of research, including the biomedical applications of neurological music therapy in sensorimotor speech and cognitive rehabilitation. This book will be of interest for the lay and professional reader in the sciences and arts as well as the professionals in the fields of neuroscientific research, medicine, and rehabilitation.