[Commlist] Prosecuting & Policing Rap, special issue, POPULAR MUSIC, call for abstracts

*Contributions are invited to a special issue of/Popular Music/on the 
complex interface between rap music (taken in its broadest sense to 
include mainstream rap, gangsta rap, activist rap, drill, grime, etc.) 
and criminal justice systems around the world.*


Rap music is an international youth-cultural powerhouse and, while its 
spread has been celebrated, it has also been attended by mounting 
criminalisation. This special issue asks researchers to explore the 
policing and prosecuting of rap and how this has been framed in media 
reporting. It also considers what might make rap susceptible to such 
state criminalisation and how rappers, communities, civil liberties 
groups, defence lawyers, and scholars have come to challenge the state 
weaponisation of rap.

The use of rap music in criminal and civil proceedings has emerged as a 
well-documented issue of public concernin the US—dubbed ‘Rap on 
Trial’(Nielson and Dennis; Nielson and Kubrin; Dennis;Dunbar, Kubrin and 
Scurich).However, outside the US, it is much less understood and there 
is a pressing need for more scrutiny and critique. This special issue is 
particularly interested in work that addresses case studies and trends 
in the global South; in Britain and other non-US parts of the global 
North; and in comparative work on the US in relation to other countries.

We welcome contributions from a range of disciplines (law, popular 
music, media studies, sociology, criminology, cultural studies, 
linguistics, socio-psychology, etc.). We believe this topic—situated at 
the intersection of law and culture—opens significant opportunities for 
ambitious interdisciplinary work. We’re keen on approaches that open 
outwards from concrete discourses, poetics, policies and practices to 
expose broader social trends, institutional processes, and critical 
concepts that lay bare state violence (racism; economic injustice; 
overpolicing, etc.) and that offer radical critiques. We are also keen 
on applied work, and contributions that engage with musicians, 
communities, activists, and criminal justice professionals.


*Further details:*

*https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/popular-music/prosecuting-and-policing-rap-cfp 
<https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/popular-music/prosecuting-and-policing-rap-cfp>
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*DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 1ST OCTOBER *


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