That's the joint! : the hip-hop studies reader / edited by Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal.

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"This newly expanded and revised second edition of That's the Joint! brings together the most important and up-to-date hip-hop scholarship in one comprehensive volume. Presented thematically, the selections address the history of hip-hop, identity politics of the 'hip-hop nation,' debates of 'street...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Forman, Murray, 1959-
Neal, Mark Anthony
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Rap (Music) > History and criticism.
Rap (Music) > Social aspects.
Hip-hop.
Physical Description:xi, 760 pages ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • pt. 1. Hip-hop ya don't stop : hip-hop history and historiography
  • the politics of graffiti / Craig Castleman
  • Zulus on a time bomb : hip-hop meets the rockers downtown / Jeff Chang
  • B-beats bombarding Bronx : mobile DJ starts something with older R&B disks and jive talking NY DJs Rapping away in black discos / Robert Ford, Jr.
  • Hip-hop's founding fathers speak the truth / Nelson George
  • Physical graffiti : the history of hip-hop dance / Jorge "Fabel" Pabon
  • Hip-hop turns 30 : watcha celebratin' for? / Greg Tate.
  • pt. 2. No Time for fake niggas : hip-hop culture and the authenticity debates
  • Puerto rocks : rap, roots, and amnesia / Juan Flores
  • It's a family affair / Paul Gilroy
  • On the question of nigga authenticity / R.A.T. Judy
  • Arabic hip-hop : claims of authenticity and identity of a new genre / Usama Kahf
  • Lookin' for the real nigga : social scientists construct the ghetto / Robin D.G. Kelley
  • Hip-hop Chicano : a separate but parallel story / Reagan Kelly
  • Authenticity Within hip-hop and other cultures threatened with assimilation / Kembrew McLeod
  • race! and other four-letter words : Eminem and the cultural politics of authenticity / Gilbert Rodman
  • Rapping and repping Asian : Race, authenticity and the Asian American / Oliver Wang.
  • pt. 3. Ain't no love in the heart of the city : hip-hop, space and place
  • Black empires, white desires : the spatial politics of identity in the age of hip-hop / Davarian Baldwin
  • 'Represent' : race, space, and place in rap music / Murray Forman
  • Rap's dirty South : from subculture to pop culture / Matt Miller
  • Global black self-fashionings : hip-hop as diasporic space / Marcus Perry
  • Hooligans and heroes : youth identity and hip-hop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania / Alex Perullo
  • Native tongues : a roundtable on hip-hop's global indigenous movement / Cristina Veran with Darryl DLT Thompson, Litefoot, Grant Leigh Saunders, Mohammed Yunus Rafiq, and JAAS.
  • pt. 4. I'll be Nina Simone defecating on your microphone : hip-hop and gender
  • I Used to be scared of the dick : queer women of color and hip-hop masculinity / Andreana Clay
  • Cover Your eyes as i describe a scene so violent : violence, machismo, sexism, and homophobia / Michael Eric Dyson and Byron Hurt
  • 'The king of the streets' : hip hop and the reclaiming of masculinity in Jerusalem's Shu'afat refugee camp / Ela Greenberg
  • Scared straight : hip-hop, outing, and the pedagogy of queerness / Marc Lamont Hill
  • Empowering self, making choices, creating spaces : black female identity via rap music performance / Cheryl L. Keyes
  • Hip-hop feminist / Joan Morgan
  • Butta pecan mamis / Raquel Rivera.
  • pt. 5. The message : rap, politics and resistance
  • Intergenerational culture wars : civil rights vs. hip hop / Todd Boyd and Yusuf Nuruddin
  • The challenge of rap music from cultural movement to political power / Bakari Kitwana
  • Voyeurism and resistance in rap music videos / Jennifer C. Lena
  • Postindustrial soul : black popular music at the crossroads / Mark Anthony Neal
  • My Mic sound nice : art, community and consciousness / Imani Perry
  • Rise Up hip-hop nation : from deconstructing racial politics to building positive solutions / Kristine Wright.
  • pt. 6. Looking for the perfect beat : hip-hop, technology and rap's lyrical arts
  • Bring it to the cypher : hip hop nation language / H. Samy Alim
  • Airshafts, loudspeakers, and the hip-hop sample / Andrew Bartlett
  • Hip-hop : from live performance to mediated narrative / Greg Dimitriadis
  • Dead Prezence : money and mortal themes in hip-hop culture / James Peterson
  • Sampling ethics / Joseph Schloss.
  • pt. 7. I used to love H.E.R. : Hip-hop in/and the culture industries
  • The rap career / Mickey Hess
  • The business of rap : Between the street and the executive suite / Keith Negus
  • 'I don't like to dream about getting paid' : representations of social mobility and the emergence of the hip-hop mogul / Christopher Holmes Smith
  • Black youth and the ironies of capitalism / S. Craig Watkins
  • An exploration of spectacular consumption : gangsta rap as cultural commodity / Eric K. Watts.