Name: Lim Min Tze (S7) Date: 27 February 2007

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Hamm, M. S., Ferrell, J. (2001). Rap, cops, and crime: Clarifying the ‘Cop Killer’

controversy. In R.C. Monk (Ed.), Taking sides: Clashing views on

controversial issues in crime and criminology (pp. 25-30). Guilford,

Connecticut: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill.

Hamm and Ferrell are indignant that racism and poverty are facts of life. They wrote that

gangsta rap is proudly localized as ‘ghetto music’. Rap music focuses on aspects

of ghetto life that most whites, self-protective police officers and politicians would rather

ignore and rappers are just recording their everyday experiences such as poverty and

racial conflict.

Hip-hop. (2007). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved February 26, 2007, from

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This article is about the history of rap music or hip hop and different views about music

of this genre. It contains discussions of the good and bad of rap music and the problems

caused by some controversial rappers.

Martin, D. R. ( 2001). The music of murder. In R.C. Monk (Ed.), Taking

sides: clashing views on controversial issues in crime and criminology

(pp. 20-24). Guilford, Connecticut: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill.

Dennis R. Martin, Former President of the National Association of Chiefs of Police

theorizes that since music has both the power to soothe and to stir violent emotions, then

rising racial tensions and violence can be attributed to rock music’s promotion of vile,

deviant, and sociopathic behaviors. He also mentions that the lyrics of rap music are

mostly topics of deprivation, rebellion, sex, drug abuse and guns. He concludes that rock

and rap music contributes to the increasing of crime rates as the listeners are greatly

influenced by the lyrics.

Szatmary, D. P. (2000). Rockin’ in time: a social history of rock and roll. Upper

Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

In this book, author Dave Szatmary connects rock music with the changing social

climates in the United States and Great Britain. This book contains the history that links

the changes in popular music to changes in economic, political and social concerns.

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