Crack Music: Representations of the Drugs Trade in New York Hip-Hop
This thesis offers the first in-depth analysis of Hip-Hop lyrics from New York that discuss the drugs trade. I argue throughout, that Hip-Hop lyrics constitute a discourse of “Black vernacular neoliberalism,” and examine the ways in which performers narrativize the trade in illegal drugs and simulta...
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| Format: | Thesis (University of Nottingham only) |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/77336/ |