TITLE

'Bang' : Guns, rap, and silence

AUTHOR(S)

Nordlinger, Jay

PUB. DATE

April 2001

SOURCE

National Review;4/16/2001, Vol. 53 Issue 7, p37

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

This article focuses on the connection between gun violence and rap music in the United States. It's easy to look away from rap music and its nature. But it should not be so, and it surely shouldn't be so for gun-controllers. Most people are less familiar with rap's celebration of the gun. The U.S. is engaged in a great debate over gun control. The inner cities are the centre of gun crime. A group called the Campus Alliance to End Gun Violence says that gun violence disproportionately preys on the young persons.

ACCESSION #

4273031

Tags: RAP (Music);  GUN control;  DANCE music -- United States;  YOUTH & violence;  FIREARMS

 

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