In the late 1980s, gansta rap music emerged in urban America, giving voice to, & making money for, a social group widely believed to be in crisis: young, poor,

In the late 1980s, gangsta rap music emerged in urban America, giving voice to—and making money for—a social group widely considered to be in crisis: young,

This volume, based on presentations at a 1998 state of the art conference at the University of Georgia, critically examines African American English (AAE) socia

Illustrates the ways that the “war on crime” became conjoined—aesthetically, politically, and rhetorically—with the emergence of gangsta rap as a lucrat

A study of contemporary music in light of transformations to work and social life. The emergence of the popular music industry in the early twentieth century no