Year: 2023
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: 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.
Source: Routledge eBooks
Author: Lambros Fatsis
Institution: City, University of London
Language: English
Topic: Music History and Culture
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4313827766