Crime and Music

This unique volume explores the relationship between music and crime in its various forms and expressions, bringing together two areas rarely discussed in the same contexts and combining them through the tools offered by cultural criminology. Contributors discuss a range of topics, from how songs and artists draw on criminality as inspiration to how musical expression fulfills unexpected functions such as building deviant subcultures, encouraging social movements, or carrying messages of protest.

Spanning a range of cultures and time periods,  Crime and Music  will be of interest to researchers in critical and cultural criminology, the history of music, anthropology, ethnology, and sociology.