American Psalm World Psalm Nicholas Samaras

the long version

"American Psalm, World Psalm takes the original rhythms of the Biblical Psalms and reimagines them through the scope of contemporary American music -- blues, jazz, folk, hip-hop, world music. Samaras turns in a massively ambitious -- and hugely successful -- project of writing one-hundred and fifty contemporary psalms, to mirror the Old Testament, that evoke the spiritual hunger of our modern world. He is a lyricist, a political writer, and social critic par excellence who cuts to the heart of our postmodern living." -- back cover