Essay Question: Critically examine the relations between rap music and criminality

Key Reading / Information

Bramwell, R. 2015. UK Hip-Hop, Grime and the City. New York and London: Routledge.

Johnny Ilan, ‘Street Cultures’ Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice

http://criminology.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.001.0001/acrefore-9780190264079-e-161?rskey=ceW4cq&result=1

Anderson, E. 1999. Code of the Street. New York: Norton & Co.

Kubrin, C. E., and E. Nielson. 2014. “Rap on Trial.” Race and Justice 4 (3): 185–211.

Potter, R. 1995. Spectacular Vernaculars. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Quinn, E. 2005. Nothing but a “G” Thing. New York; Chichester: Columbia University Press.

Rose, T. 1994. Black Noise. Hanover, N.H.: Wesleyan University Press.

Critically examine the relations between rap music and criminality