The Mark of Criminality - Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-On-Crime Era

Illustrates the ways that the "war on crime" became conjoined--aesthetically, politically, and rhetorically--with the emergence of gangsta rap as a lucrative and deeply controversial subgenre of hip-hop

About the author

Bryan J. McCann is an assistant professor of rhetoric and cultural studies in the Department of Communication Studies at Louisiana State University. He has written for Rhetoric Society Quarterly and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. In addition to appearing on local newscasts and the national program Democracy Now!, McCann also presented aTEDxLSU talk in 2014 on race and criminal justice.

Summary

Positions the works of key gangsta rap artists, as well as the controversies their work produced, squarely within the law-and-order politics and popular culture of the 1980s and 1990s to reveal a profoundly complex period in American history when the meanings of crime and criminality were incredibly unstable.

Product details

• Authors: Bryan J McCann, Bryan J. McCann
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780817359485
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5948-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 508 mm
• Weight: 286 g
• Series: Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Rhetoric, Culture, and Social; Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series; Rhetoric Culture and Social Cr
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology