![]() ![]() He was calling for people to rethink their knee-jerk hostility to the project of mission.” The late Lamin Sanneh taught Christianity’s world history “at a time when there was a lot of academic skepticism. “My father in his own way was not afraid to take a position outside of academic consensus,” Sanneh says. Is Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” a country song? Does hip-hop have to be political or philosophical to be “good”? Why was disco’s massive appeal so abruptly short-lived? Is it the bluesy bluster of Grand Funk Railroad, or the androgynous power ballads of the hair-metal band Poison, or the scabrous grunge of Nirvana? Could any of those bands have anticipated the variations that followed? “What does it mean to be a rock band? What does rock sound like? How does rock define itself?” “I wanted to tell the story of these genres - and by genres, I kind of mean communities - how a lot of times these communities are defined by arguments,” he says. ![]() Kelefa Sanneh (center) and a couple of friends on the T in 1994. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |