The Mark of Criminality – Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War–on–Crime E…

The Mark of CriminalityRhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era\nAuthor(s): Bryan J. McCann\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817359485, 978-0817359485\nSynopsis\nIllustrates the ways that the \""\""war on crime\""\"" became conjoinedaesthetically, politically, and rhetoricallywith the emergence of gangsta rap as a lucrative and deeply controversial subgenre of hip-hop.\n\nIn The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era, Bryan J. McCann argues that gangsta rap should be viewed as more than a damaging reinforcement of an era's worst racial stereotypes. Rather, he positions the works of key gangsta rap artists, as well as the controversies their work produced, squarely within the law-and-order politics and popular culture of the 1980s and 1990s to reveal a profoundly complex period in American history when the meanings of crime and criminali.