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

Info autore

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 a TEDxLSU talk in 2014 on race and criminal justice.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Bryan J McCann, Bryan J. McCann
• Editore: The University of Alabama Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780817359485
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5948-5
• Pagine: 208
• Dimensioni: 228 mm x 153 mm x 19 mm
• Peso: 330 g
• Illustrazioni: 11 black & white figures
• Serie: 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; Rhetoric, Culture, and, Social Critique
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto penale, diritto processuale penale, criminologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Musica > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie