Rock Fought the Law and the Songs Won: Pop Music Gets Criminal (but stops short of homicide)
By Hector DeJean
October 16, 2020Crime has inspired so much music that multiple volumes could be devoted to the subject. Certainly the blues, country, punk, and hip-hop have all produced songs with crime at the center, but so have Cole Porter (“Miss Otis Regrets”), Berthold Brecht (The Threepenny Opera), folk singers, and big bands. There are whole categories of songs—“murder…