Tuomas Järvenpää
Biographic Data
| ID | 1637658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tuomas Järvenpää |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tuomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Järvenpää |
| SIGNATURE | JÄRVENPÄÄ T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Eastern Finland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1233-3606 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A rapper is coming here—and he is black!” Authentication of rap music in the Finnish gospel music scene, 2005–2020
Real Gs and pastors in the church: Hip-hop esthetics in the rap music video productions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Previous studies of Christianity and hip-hop have mainly focused on the US and African American cultural context, and on evangelical minorities in different anglophone contexts. The current study offers a novel perspective on the study of Christianity and hip-hop by presenting an audiovisual close reading of two rap music videos – Kaunis Jeesus and Hoosianna – that were commissioned by a Nordic mainline church institution, the Finnish Evangelical…
From Gugulethu to the World: Rastafarian Cosmopolitanism in the South African Reggae Music of Teba Shumba and the Champions
This article is an ethnographic account of how social connections are formed with and within reggae music and how the intercultural contacts between reggae aficionados are facilitated ideologically across racial, national, and ethnic borders. These cosmopolitan ideologies of Rastafarian reggae music are analyzed as a form of performative style. The data come from a micro-historical and ethnographic description of South African reggae musicians' t…
Listening to Intergalactic Sounds - Articulation of Rastafarian Livity in Finnish Roots Reggae Sound System Performances
Rastafari is an Afro-Jamaican religious and social movement, which has since the 1970s spread outside of the Caribbean mainly through reggae music. This paper contributes to the academic discussion on the localization processes of Rastafari and reggae with an ethnographic account from the Nordic context, asking how Finnish reggae artists with Rastafarian conviction mobilize this identification in their performance. The paper focuses on one promin…
From Gugulethu to the World: Rastafarian Cosmopolitanism in the South African Reggae Music of Teba Shumba and the Champions
This article is an ethnographic account of how social connections are formed with and within reggae music and how the intercultural contacts between reggae aficionados are facilitated ideologically across racial, national, and ethnic borders. These cosmopolitan ideologies of Rastafarian reggae music are analyzed as a form of performative style. The data come from a micro-historical and ethnographic description of South African reggae musicians' t…
Listening to Intergalactic Sounds - Articulation of Rastafarian Livity in Finnish Roots Reggae Sound System Performances
Rastafari is an Afro-Jamaican religious and social movement, which has since the 1970s spread outside of the Caribbean mainly through reggae music. This paper contributes to the academic discussion on the localization processes of Rastafari and reggae with an ethnographic account from the Nordic context, asking how Finnish reggae artists with Rastafarian conviction mobilize this identification in their performance. The paper focuses on one promin…
Listening to Intergalactic Sounds - Articulation of Rastafarian Livity in Finnish Roots Reggae Sound System Performances
Rastafari is an Afro-Jamaican religious and social movement, which has since the 1970s spread outside of the Caribbean mainly through reggae music. This paper contributes to the academic discussion on the localization processes of Rastafari and reggae with an ethnographic account from the Nordic context, asking how Finnish reggae artists with Rastafarian conviction mobilize this identification in their performance. The paper focuses on one promin…
From Gugulethu to the World: Rastafarian Cosmopolitanism in the South African Reggae Music of Teba Shumba and the Champions
This article is an ethnographic account of how social connections are formed with and within reggae music and how the intercultural contacts between reggae aficionados are facilitated ideologically across racial, national, and ethnic borders. These cosmopolitan ideologies of Rastafarian reggae music are analyzed as a form of performative style. The data come from a micro-historical and ethnographic description of South African reggae musicians' t…
Real Gs and pastors in the church: Hip-hop esthetics in the rap music video productions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Previous studies of Christianity and hip-hop have mainly focused on the US and African American cultural context, and on evangelical minorities in different anglophone contexts. The current study offers a novel perspective on the study of Christianity and hip-hop by presenting an audiovisual close reading of two rap music videos – Kaunis Jeesus and Hoosianna – that were commissioned by a Nordic mainline church institution, the Finnish Evangelical…
A rapper is coming here—and he is black!” Authentication of rap music in the Finnish gospel music scene, 2005–2020
Music History and Culture (4 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Articulation (sociology (1 works) · Articulation (sociology) (1 works)