Crime and Music
Title | Crime and Music PDF eBook |
Author | Dina Siegel |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2020-12-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3030498786 |
This unique volume explores the relationship between music and crime in its various forms and expressions, bringing together two areas rarely discussed in the same contexts and combining them through the tools offered by cultural criminology. Contributors discuss a range of topics, from how songs and artists draw on criminality as inspiration to how musical expression fulfills unexpected functions such as building deviant subcultures, encouraging social movements, or carrying messages of protest. Comprised of contributions from an international cohort of scholars, the book is categorized into five parts: The Criminalization of Music; Music and Violence; Organised Crime and Music; Music, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity and Music as Resistance. Spanning a range of cultures and time periods, Crime and Music will be of interest to researchers in critical and cultural criminology, the history of music, anthropology, ethnology, and sociology.
Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment
Title | Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment PDF eBook |
Author | Lily E. Hirsch |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2012-11-15 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0472118544 |
A critical examination of the ways in which music is understood and exploited in American law enforcement and justice
Crime Song
Title | Crime Song PDF eBook |
Author | David Swinson |
Publisher | Mulholland Books |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2017-05-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0316264202 |
The return of Frank Marr, the "refreshing" protagonist of one of the New York Times' Best Crime Novels of 2016 Frank Marr was a good cop with a bad habit, until his burgeoning addictions to alcohol and cocaine forced him into retirement from the DC police. Now barely eking out a living as a private investigator, he agrees to take on a family case: a favor for his aunt, who was like a second mother to him growing up. Frank's surveillance confirms that his cousin Jeffrey is involved with a small-time drugs operation. Modest stuff, until Frank's own home is burglarized, leaving a body on the kitchen floor: Jeffrey. Worse, Frank's .38 revolver-the murder weapon-is stolen, along with his cherished music collection, his only possessions of sentimental value: dozens of vinyl albums that belonged to his late mother. Only Frank's stash, his dwindling supply of the cocaine he needs to get through the day, is untouched. Why? Clearly, his cousin was deeper in the underworld than anyone realized. With the weight of his family, his reputation, and his own life on the line, he'll have to find the culprit by following the stolen goods through a tangled network of petty thieves, desperate addicts, deceiving fences, good cops, bad cops, and one morally compromised taxi driver. Frank's as determined to uncover the truth as he is to feed his habit, and both pursuits could prove deadly. This time, it may just be a question of what gets him first.
The Use and Abuse of Music
Title | The Use and Abuse of Music PDF eBook |
Author | Eleanor Peters |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2019-08-23 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1787690016 |
Using a critical criminological approach, this book analyses what is deviant and transgressive about music, focusing on three main parts; the concept of 'harmful' or deviant music; the use of music as punishment and the censorship and silencing of music.
Crime Plus Music
Title | Crime Plus Music PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Fusilli |
Publisher | Mitten Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781941110454 |
Modern life seems to have a soundtrack for everything. Even crime. 'Crime + Music' collects twenty darkly intense, music-related noir stories by world-renowned mystery authors. Journal rock and pop music critic Jim Fusilli's selection of lively, chilling, sinister tales tap into the large span of rock and pop history.
Rap on Trial
Title | Rap on Trial PDF eBook |
Author | Erik Nielson |
Publisher | The New Press |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2019-11-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1620973413 |
A groundbreaking exposé about the alarming use of rap lyrics as criminal evidence to convict and incarcerate young men of color Should Johnny Cash have been charged with murder after he sang, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die"? Few would seriously subscribe to this notion of justice. Yet in 2001, a rapper named Mac whose music had gained national recognition was convicted of manslaughter after the prosecutor quoted liberally from his album Shell Shocked. Mac was sentenced to thirty years in prison, where he remains. And his case is just one of many nationwide. Over the last three decades, as rap became increasingly popular, prosecutors saw an opportunity: they could present the sometimes violent, crime-laden lyrics of amateur rappers as confessions to crimes, threats of violence, evidence of gang affiliation, or revelations of criminal motive—and judges and juries would go along with it. Detectives have reopened cold cases on account of rap lyrics and videos alone, and prosecutors have secured convictions by presenting such lyrics and videos of rappers as autobiography. Now, an alarming number of aspiring rappers are imprisoned. No other form of creative expression is treated this way in the courts. Rap on Trial places this disturbing practice in the context of hip hop history and exposes what's at stake. It's a gripping, timely exploration at the crossroads of contemporary hip hop and mass incarceration.
The Use and Abuse of Music
Title | The Use and Abuse of Music PDF eBook |
Author | Eleanor Peters |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2019-08-23 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1787569993 |
Using a critical criminological approach, this book analyses what is deviant and transgressive about music, focusing on three main parts; the concept of ‘harmful’ or deviant music; the use of music as punishment and the censorship and silencing of music.