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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-195) and index. |
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Classical music in crime prevention -- Sound for sound : a new approach to punishment in noise abatement -- Rap lyrics as evidence -- The music made me do it : obscenity and incitement in legal valuations of music -- Music in prison -- Music as torture -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
Although the use of music for extramusical purposes has been a part of American culture for some time, the phenomenon remained largely unknown to the general public until revelations became widespread of startling military practices during the second Iraq War. In Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment, Lily E. Hirsch explores the related terrain at the intersection of music and law, demonstrating the ways in which music has become a tool of law enforcement and justice through: police and community leaders' use of classical music in crime deterrence and punishment; the use of rap lyrics as prosecutorial evidence; allegations of music as incitement to violence; and the role of music in U.S. prisons and in detention centers in Guantanamo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. In the course of her study, Hirsch asks several questions: How does the law treat music? When and why does music participate in the law? How does music influence the legal process? How does the legal process influence music? And how do these appropriations affect the Romantic ideals underlying our view of music? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Music and crime.
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Music and crime. |
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Music -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Music -- Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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Music -- Psychological aspects.
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Music -- Psychological aspects. |
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Performing arts -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. |
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Performing arts -- Law and legislation. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. |
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Criminal justice, Administration of. |
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MUSIC -- General. |
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Music and state. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Music in American crime prevention and punishment Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012. 9780472118540 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2012025922 |
| ISBN |
9780472028740 ebook |
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047202874X ebook |
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9780472118540 cloth ; alkaline paper |
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1283837188 |
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9781283837187 |
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0472118544 |
| Standard No. |
99952124101 |
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10.3998/mpub.4365408 |
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