Rap music is frequently summoned to stand trial for glorifying violence, glamourising outlaw lifestyles and causing ‘crime’. Perceived as dangerous, rap is pursued and processed as such by the police, prosecutors and judges without interrogating the prejudicial assumptions that lead to its discriminatory suppression. Taking up two recurring questions in debates on rap — ‘isn’t it violent’? , ‘isn’t it misogynistic’? — this chapter challenges stereotypical associations between rap music and ‘criminality’, reintroducing it instead as music to be appreciated against, beyond and outside law enforcement narratives that criminalise rap, while normalising violence in other aspects of cultural and socio-political life
Our criminal justice system produces socially naturalized truths which authorize certain subjects’ d...
This Article examines the complex and unsettled state of the true threats doctrine through the lens ...
Heavy metal and rap music are the two most scrutinized forms of music. Heavy metal music, which feat...
Rap music is frequently summoned to stand trial for glorifying violence, glamourising outlaw lifesty...
UK Drill music is regularly admitted as evidence of criminal offending, violence and aggression in B...
Rap music has had a contentious relationship with the legal system, including censorship, regulation...
Despite a long history of policing Black music culture(s), across the African diaspora, criminologis...
abstract: Hip-hop’s popularity has been steadily increasing since the late 1980s, with it becoming t...
Forthcoming in Popular Music (2022). This article explores the admissibility and use of rap music as...
In criminal proceedings across the United States, rap music lyrics are being introduced as evidence ...
Drawing theoretically both from cultural studies and cultural criminology, this exp loratory project...
I argue that hip hop music and culture profoundly influences attitudes toward and perceptions about ...
In courtrooms across the U.S., defendant-authored rap lyrics are being introduced as incriminating e...
This article explores the question of whether (and when) rap music is relevant evidence of a crime, ...
In 2017, data from the Nielsen Music Report revealed that for the very first time, R&B/Hip-Hop was t...
Our criminal justice system produces socially naturalized truths which authorize certain subjects’ d...
This Article examines the complex and unsettled state of the true threats doctrine through the lens ...
Heavy metal and rap music are the two most scrutinized forms of music. Heavy metal music, which feat...
Rap music is frequently summoned to stand trial for glorifying violence, glamourising outlaw lifesty...
UK Drill music is regularly admitted as evidence of criminal offending, violence and aggression in B...
Rap music has had a contentious relationship with the legal system, including censorship, regulation...
Despite a long history of policing Black music culture(s), across the African diaspora, criminologis...
abstract: Hip-hop’s popularity has been steadily increasing since the late 1980s, with it becoming t...
Forthcoming in Popular Music (2022). This article explores the admissibility and use of rap music as...
In criminal proceedings across the United States, rap music lyrics are being introduced as evidence ...
Drawing theoretically both from cultural studies and cultural criminology, this exp loratory project...
I argue that hip hop music and culture profoundly influences attitudes toward and perceptions about ...
In courtrooms across the U.S., defendant-authored rap lyrics are being introduced as incriminating e...
This article explores the question of whether (and when) rap music is relevant evidence of a crime, ...
In 2017, data from the Nielsen Music Report revealed that for the very first time, R&B/Hip-Hop was t...
Our criminal justice system produces socially naturalized truths which authorize certain subjects’ d...
This Article examines the complex and unsettled state of the true threats doctrine through the lens ...
Heavy metal and rap music are the two most scrutinized forms of music. Heavy metal music, which feat...