![]() ![]() In Marxist terms the ideological superstructure (musical expression) is the outcome of a deeper-rooted, social and economic base-structure. Politicians pinning the blame for gang murders and knife crime on Drill music are pointing their fingers at the effects but not the causes. It is very much the case that with new and more affordable technologies youngsters are able to generate and broadcast their own media and lower cost to potentially wider audiences – politicians may blame the media content but they would never blame the technologies themselves. And lower-cost technologies are very much the cause of the amplification. As a “model of and for reality” then Drill music not only carries on but amplifies the kind of violence and gun culture that has always been found on the streets of London, Birmingham, Sheffield, Liverpool, etc. Taken in these terms, if we ask the question, does Drill music encourage violence on the streets of Britain, then the answer would be “yes, but only to some extent”. A template is extracted from the streets of London and transported around neighborhoods of the UK, in the same way that a model of Drill culture was extracted from Chicago and exported to London, England. Those listening to British Drill music who are not from poor social and economic backgrounds, do not sell drugs or commit crime, – perhaps white teenagers from working-class or middle-class facilities – might then buy into or be inspired by these artistic representations to live, act, behave in certain ways portrayed. Those listing to the violence represented by Drill artists may then be influenced or intimidated into crime, knife or gun violence as part of this cultural movement. It shows people life on the mean streets of London, represents it as realistically as possible, which then inspires some people to not only represent this lifestyle but compete to represent it more authentically in their own lifeworlds. That is to say that Drill creates a new culture or sub-culture. ![]() It represents what is there on the streets of some of Britain’s toughest ghettos and presents it – or ‘re-presents’ it – in such a way that it becomes a model for reality to some extent it determines life or ways of living. This is one side of the coupling.Īt the same time, UK Drill music is also a model for reality. Drill music can be understood as a form of artistic realism it ‘keeps it real’, offering a real representation of life on the streets to audiences tuned in. Aspects of the cultural environment would include council housing estates, economic inefficiencies (litter, broken facilities, graffiti) slang, fashion, violence, crime, patrolling police officers, knives, guns and so on. What UK Drill does is represent a social environment to external audiences. In these terms, and in the first instance, UK Drill music models reality. That is the idea that cultural symbols do two things, they provide a model of reality and a model for reality. To begin with, I want to pinch to terms and concepts from anthropologist Richard Geertz. This blog develops a theory about the relationship between urban violence and drill music. Thank you for reading, this has been a long time coming.Does drill music cause or encourage more violence on the streets of Britain? This is an important question posed by the Metropolitan Police with discussion on the BBC and mainstream media. ![]() The BTS timeline has been modified to fit this story so some events happen at different times than they did in reality Completed Also on Wattpad There are no ships and no proper smut, but there definitely graphic and mature chapters labeled 18+ One trigger warning regarding drug use also labeled at start of chapter. Can it be true love? When one of the members begins to interfere, she must decide if it's possible to keep her love, be true to her own life, and keep the group together. Their two different worlds seem to connect easily. Alexa is hired to work on a photo shoot for a KPOP band and starts a whirlwind romance with one of the members. The course of true love never did run smooth.
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