Introduction Part I: Is it even music? Policing Black music as 'out of tune' under British colonial rule 1 Cop-italism and slavery: excavating the colonial origins of British policing 2 Crude noise of a 'vile race': the danger of Black music(s) 3 Policing 'dangerous noise' one beat at a time 4 'Salvation 'tis a joyful sound': a concluding coda Part II: Does it belong here? Policing Black music as 'out of place' in postwar Britain 5 'If you brown, they say you can't stick around': policing and cr-immigration in post-war Britain 6 (Don't) welcome to Britain 7 Racism runs riot 8 'It gets me 'fraid when Babylon raid"' Part III: Isn't it criminal? Black Music as 'out of order' in contemporary Britain 9 To Be Black is a crime 10 Looking for 'crime' in grime 11 Blaming drill for making people kill 12 But isn't rap violent and misogynistic? Part IV: Sounds radical: Black critique(s) of white reason 13 Who feels it, knows it: Black radical thought in sound 14 Who knows it, feels it: learning about criminal injustice from the policing of Black music(s) 15 Listen to this book: an annotated playlist Postscript: of skinfolk and kinfolk: a rap on 'whiteness' Index.