Culture | Hip-hop music

An ethnographer’s study of drill music and gang violence in Chicago

Forrest Stuart embedded with rappers on the city’s South Side for over 18 months

Sep 3rd 2020

Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music and the Power of Online Infamy. By Forrest Stuart.Princeton University Press; 288 pages; $27.95 and £22.

This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “Drilling down”

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