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Abstract

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.

Publication Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space: Social Control, Sense and Sensibility on 28 Apr 2021, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Harm-and-Disorder-in-the-Urban-Space-Social-Control-Sense-and-Sensibility/Persak-Ronco/p/book/9780367552657
Publisher Keywords:	Criminalisation of Black music subcultures, policing against UK grime, UK drill and Brazilian, baile funk, state regulation and social control, policing urban public space, sensory criminology
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare J Political Science > JA Political science (General) K Law M Music and Books on Music
Departments:	School of Policy & Global Affairs > Sociology & Criminology

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