Listening to Rap: Cultures of Crime, Cultures of Resistance

Autor/inn/en	Tanner, Julian; Asbridge, Mark; Wortley, Scot
Titel	Listening to Rap: Cultures of Crime, Cultures of Resistance
Quelle	In: Social Forces, 88 (2009) 2, S.693-722 (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7732
Schlagwörter	Music; Subcultures; Delinquency; Audiences; Racial Identification; High School Students; Crime; Comparative Analysis; Databases; Foreign Countries; Social Justice; Student Attitudes; Sociology; Violence; Socioeconomic Status; Cultural Capital; Measures (Individuals); Regression (Statistics); Canada (Toronto) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Musik; Subculture; Subkultur; Kriminalität; Spectator; Zuschauer; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Datenbank; Ausland; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Schülerverhalten; Soziologie; Gewalt; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Messdaten; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	This research compares representations of rap music with the self-reported criminal behavior and resistant attitudes of the music's core audience. Our database is a large sample of Toronto high school students (n = 3,393) from which we identify a group of listeners, whose combination of musical likes and dislikes distinguish them as rap univores. We then examine the relationship between their cultural preference for rap music and involvement in a culture of crime and their perceptions of social injustice and inequity. We find that the rap univores, also known as "urban music enthusiasts", report significantly more delinquent behavior and stronger feelings of inequity and injustice than listeners with other musical tastes. However, we also find that the nature and strengths of those relationships vary according to the racial identity of different groups within urban music enthusiasts. Black and white subgroups align themselves with resistance representations while Asians do not; whites and Asians report significant involvement in crime and delinquency, while blacks do not. Finally, we discuss our findings in light of research on media effects and audience reception, youth subcultures and post-subcultural analysis, and the sociology of cultural consumption. (Contains 5 notes and 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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