Full Description
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.
Contents
1 Stories of Crime and Music.- Part 1 The criminalization of music.- 2 Entartete Musik - perpetrators and victims.- 3 Marginalizing the Muslim Ustad: Hindu Nationalism and Music in Modern North India.- Part 2 Music and Violence.- 4 Castrati: child abuse and the search for musical perfection.- 5 Crime at the Opera House.- 6 "Blood-Thirsty Blues": The Sonic Politics of American Murder Ballads.- Part 3 Organised crime and music.- 7 Praise the Drug Lord: Narcocorridos in Mexico.- 8 Jazz and the Mob: A story of unexpected patronage.- 9 Crimen et Circenses: Serbian Turbo Folk Music and Organised Crime.- Part 4 Music and Genocide and Crimes against humanity.- 10 Todestango. Music in Nazi death camps.- 11 The Music act of 'Kosovo' and its semantic resonances in international criminal trials: an oral epic poetry case study towards a cognitive approach to analysis investigations and prosecutions.- 12 Jihadi Anashid, Islamic State Warfare and the Agency of Sound.- Part 5 Music as resistance.- 13 The malleable and inevitable path of demonizing (sub)culture: The case of Greek rebetiko.- 14 "Keeping it (hyper)real": a musical history of rap's quest beyond authenticity.
