Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet - America's New Dilemma (Hardcover)

Is Gangsta Rap just black noise? Or does it play the same role for urban youth that CNN plays in mainstream America? This provocative set of essays tells us how Gangsta Rap is a creative "report" about an urban crisis, our new American dilemma, and why we need to listen. Increasingly, police, politicians, and late-night talk show hosts portray today's inner cities as violent, crime-ridden war zones. The same moral panic that once focused on blacks in general has now been refocused on urban spaces and the black men who live there, especially those wearing saggy pants and hoodies. The media always spotlights the crime and violence, but rarely gives airtime to the conditions that produced these problems. The dominant narrative holds that the cause of the violence is the pathology of ghetto culture. Hip-hop music is at the center of this conversation. When 16-year-old Chicago youth Derrion Albert was brutally killed by gang members, many blamed rap music. Thus hip-hop music has been demonized not merely as black noise but as a root cause of crime and violence. Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet: America's New Dilemma explores-and demystifies-the politics in which the gulf between the inner city and suburbia have come to signify not only a socio-economic dividing line, but a new socio-cultural divide as well. A chronological account of development of rap music going back to the era of slavery Drawings and editorial cartoons A multicultural bibliography containing sociological, historical, and legal materials A glossary of many key terms such as "structural racism" and "governmentalism"

General

Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2013
First published:	March 2013
Authors:	D Marvin Jones
Dimensions:	165 x 242 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	297
ISBN-13:	978-0-313-39577-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
LSN:	0-313-39577-2
Barcode:	9780313395772

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