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Sounds dangerous
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Despite a long history of policing against Black music subcultures, mainstream criminology has shied away from exploring their discriminatory suppression by law enforcement agencies. Understanding how Black music genres are policed as sonically disturbing and lyrically suspicious, however, exposes why they are targeted as sources of deviant behaviour in the first place. Drawing on UK grime, UK drill and Brazilian baile funk as examples of contemporary rap that are heavily criminalised, this chapter (re)introduces Black music genres as victims of institutionally racist processes of state regulation and social control that police rap music as unwelcome noise, and treat rappers as a threatening and uncivil presence in urban public space.
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“Trawling through YouTube channels that depict drill rappers as 'dangerous criminals', we demonstrate how such factually inaccurate and sensationalist representations contribute to a punitive public culture that targets Black music (sub)culture(s) (Fatsis, 2021b), ignores the artistic conventions of the genre (Kelley, 1994; Krims, 2000; Quinn, 2005; Stoia et al . 2018) and does violence to high”
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“whose legacy has to be understood in relation to a long and disreputable history of policing against Black music genres (Fatsis, 2021b: 35-7) and an equally long history of police racism and racial injustice (Fatsis and Lamb, 2021: 23-34).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Fatsis, L.
- Corresponding author
- Fatsis, Lambros
- ORCID
- Fatsis, Lambros
- Venue
- Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2021-03-20
- Pages
- 30-51
- OpenAlex
- W3130689586
- Cited by
- 15
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4
- FWCI
- 18.16
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Music › Music History and Culture
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Keywords
- institutional racism, grime, noise regulation, urban public space, deviance
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