That's the joint! : the hip-hop studies reader

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Where to find it

Music Library

Call Number
ML3531 .T43 2004
Status
Checked Out (Due 8/14/2024)

Stone Center Library

Call Number
ML3531 .T43 2004 c. 2
Status
Checked Out (Due 11/6/2013)

Undergrad Library

Call Number
ML3531 .T43 2004
Status
Available

Summary

That's the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader brings together the best-known and most influential writings on rap and hip-hop from its beginnings to today. Spanning nearly 25 years of scholarship, criticism, and journalism, this unprecedented anthology showcases the evolution and continuing influence of one of the most creative and contested elements of global popular culture since its advent in the late 1970s.

That's the Joint presents the most important hip-hop scholarship in one comprehensive volume, addressing hip-hop as both a musical and a cultural practice. Think of it as "Hip-Hop 101."

Contents

  • Foreword p. xi
  • Acknowledgments p. xv
  • Introduction p. 1 Murray Forman
  • Part I Hip-Hop Ya Don't Stop: Hip-Hop History and Historiography p. 9 Murray Forman
  • 1 Breaking p. 13 Sally Banes
  • 2 The Politics of Graffiti p. 21 Craig Castleman
  • 3 Breaking: The History p. 31 Michael Holman
  • 4 B-Beats Bombarding Bronx: Mobile DJ Starts Something with Oldie R&B Disks p. 41 Robert Ford, Jr.
  • 5 Jive Talking N.Y. DJs Rapping Away in Black Discos p. 43 Robert Ford, Jr.
  • 6 Hip-Hop's Founding Fathers Speak the Truth p. 45 Nelson George
  • Part II No Time for Fake Niggas: Hip-Hop Culture and the Authenticity Debates p. 57 Mark Anthony Neal
  • 7 The Culture of Hip-Hop p. 61 Michael Eric Dyson
  • 8 Puerto Rocks: Rap, Roots, and Amnesia p. 69 Juan Flores
  • 9 It's a Family Affair p. 87 Paul Gilroy
  • 10 Hip-Hop Chicano: A Separate but Parallel Story p. 95 Raegan Kelly
  • 11 On the Question of Nigga Authenticity p. 105 R.A.T. Judy
  • 12 Looking for the "Real" Nigga: Social Scientists Construct the Ghetto p. 119 Robin D.G. Kelley
  • 13 About a Salary or Reality?--Rap's Recurrent Conflict p. 137 Alan Light
  • 14 The Rap on Rap: The "Black Music" that Isn't Either p. 147 David Samuels
  • Part III Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City: Hip-Hop, Space, and Place p. 155 Murray Forman
  • 15 Black Empires, White Desires: The Spatial Politics of Identity in the Age of Hip-Hop p. 159 Davarian L. Baldwin
  • 16 Hip-Hop am Main, Rappin' on the Tyne: Hip-Hop Culture as a Local Construct in Two European Cities p. 177 Andy Bennett
  • 17 "Represent": Race, Space, and Place in Rap Music p. 201 Murray Forman
  • 18 Rap and Hip-Hop: The New York Connection p. 223 Dick Hebdige
  • 19 Uptown Throwdown p. 233 David Toop
  • Part IV I'll Be Nina Simone Defecating on Your Microphone: Hip-Hop and Gender p. 247 Mark Anthony Neal
  • 20 Translating Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop: The Musical Vernacular of Black Girls' Play p. 251 Kyra D. Gaunt
  • 21 Empowering Self, Making Choices, Creating Spaces: Black Female Identity via Rap Music Performance p. 265 Cheryl L. Keyes
  • 22 Hip-Hop Feminist p. 277 Joan Morgan
  • 23 Seeds and Legacies: Tapping the Potential in Hip-Hop p. 283 Gwendolyn D. Pough
  • 24 Never Trust a Big Butt and a Smile p. 291 Tricia Rose
  • Part V The Message: Rap, Politics, and Resistance p. 307 Mark Anthony Neal
  • 25 Organizing the Hip-Hop Generation p. 311 Angela Ards
  • 26 Check Yo Self Before You Wreck Yo Self: The Death of Politics in Rap Music and Popular Culture p. 325 Todd Boyd
  • 27 The Challenge of Rap Music from Cultural Movement to Political Power p. 341 Bakari Kitwana
  • 28 Rap, Race, and Politics p. 351 Clarence Lusane
  • 29 Postindustrial Soul: Black Popular Music at the Crossroads p. 363 Mark Anthony Neal
  • Part VI Looking for the Perfect Beat: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Technologies of Production p. 389 Murray Forman
  • 30 Airshafts, Loudspeakers, and the Hip Hop Sample: Contexts and African American Musical Aesthetics p. 393 Andrew Bartlett
  • 31 Public Enemy Confrontation p. 407 Mark Dery
  • 32 Hip-Hop: From Live Performance to Mediated Narrative p. 421 Greg Dimitriadis
  • 33 Sample This p. 437 Nelson George
  • 34 "This Is a Sampling Sport": Digital Sampling, Rap Music, and the Law in Cultural Production p. 443 Thomas G. Schumacher
  • 35 Challenging Conventions in the Fine Art of Rap p. 459 Richard Shusterman
  • 36 Hip-Hop and Black Noise: Raising Hell p. 481 Rickey Vincent
  • Part VII I Used to Love H.E.R.: Hip-Hop in/and the Culture Industries p. 493 Mark Anthony Neal
  • 37 Commercialization of the Rap Music Youth Subculture p. 497 M. Elizabeth Blair
  • 38 Dance in Hip-Hop Culture p. 505 Katrina Hazzard-Donald
  • 39 Wendy Day, Advocate for Rappers p. 517 Norman Kelley
  • 40 The Business of Rap: Between the Street and the Executive Suite p. 525 Keith Negus
  • 41 Contracting Rap: An Interview with Carmen Ashhurst-Watson p. 541 Tricia Rose
  • 42 Black Youth and the Ironies of Capitalism p. 557 S. Craig Watkins
  • 43 Homies in The 'Hood: Rap's Commodification of Insubordination p. 579 Ted Swedenburg
  • 44 An Exploration of Spectacular Consumption: Gangsta Rap as Cultural Commodity p. 593 Eric K. Watts
  • Permissions p. 611
  • Index p. 615

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