That's the Joint!
The Hip-Hop Studies Reader
Published on 7. October 2004
Book
Hardback
648 pages
978-0-415-96918-5 (ISBN)
Description
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."
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."
Reviews / Votes
"That's The Joint!, edited by Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal, is a ready-made cornerstone for any multidisciplinary hip-hop course... -- Houston Chronicle"Everything you wanted to know about hip-hop." --The Wisconsin Journal
"This is the ultimate breakdown of hip-hop scholarship in one master mix volume."-- Charlie Ahearn, co-author of Yes Yes Y'All: The Experience Music Project Oral History of Hip-Hop's First Decade and director of Wild Style
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
1270 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-96918-5 (9780415969185)
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Persons
Murray Forman is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. He is author of The 'Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Hip-Hop.
Mark Anthony Neal is Associate Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Program in African and African-American Studies at Duke University. Neal is the author of What the Music Said, Soul Babies, and Songs in the Key of Black Life, all published by Routledge.
Mark Anthony Neal is Associate Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Program in African and African-American Studies at Duke University. Neal is the author of What the Music Said, Soul Babies, and Songs in the Key of Black Life, all published by Routledge.
Content
Foreword, MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
Introduction, MURRAY FORMAN
Part I: Hip-Hop Ya Don't Stop: Hip-Hop History and Historiography
Part Introduction, MURRAY FORMAN
1. Breaking, SALLY BANES
2. The Politics of Graffiti, CRAIG CASTLEMAN
3. Breaking and the New York City Breakers, MICHAEL HOLMAN
4. Jive Talking N.Y. DJs Rapping Away in Black Discos, ROBERT FORD, JR.
5. B-Beats Bombarding Bronx, ROBERT FORD, JR.
6. Hip-Hop's Founding Fathers Speak the Truth, NELSON GEORGE
Part II: No Time for Fake Niggas: Hip-Hop Culture and the Authenticity Debates
Part Introduction, MARK ANTHONY NEAL
7. The Culture of Hip-Hop, MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
8. Puerto Rocks: Rap, Roots, and Amnesia, JUAN FLORES
9. It's a Family Affair, PAUL GILROY
10. Hip-Hop Chicano: A Separate but Parallel Story, RAEGAN KELLY
11. On the Question of Nigga Authenticity, R.A.T. JUDY
12. Looking for the "Real" Nigga: Social Scientists Construct the Ghetto, ROBIN D.G. KELLEY
13. About a Salary or Reality?-Rap's Recurrent Conflict, ALAN LIGHT
14. The Rap on Rap: The "Black Music" that Isn't Either, DAVID SAMUELS
Part III: Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City: Hip-Hop, Space, and Place
Part Introduction, MURRAY FORMAN
15. Black Empires,White Desires: The Spatial Politics of Identity in the Age of Hip-Hop, DAVARIAN L. BALDWIN
16. Hip-Hop am Main, Rappin' on the Tyne, ANDY BENNETT
17. "Represent": Race, Space, and Place in Rap Music, MURRAY FORMAN
18. Rap and Hip-Hop: The New York Connection, DICK HEBDIGE
19. Uptown Throwdown, DAVID TOOP
Part IV: I'll Be Nina Simone Defecating on Your Microphone: Hip-Hop and Gender
Part Introduction, MARK ANTHONY NEAL
20. Translating Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop: The Musical Vernacular of Black Girls' Play, KYRA D. GAUNT
21. Empowering Self, Making Choices, Creating Spaces: Black Female Identity via Rap Music Performance, CHERYL L. KEYES
22. Hip-Hop Feminist, JOAN MORGAN
23. Seeds and Legacies: Tapping the Potential in Hip-Hop, GWENDOLYN D. POUGH
24. Never Trust a Big Butt and a Smile, TRICIA ROSE
Part V: The Message: Rap, Politics, and Resistance
Part Introduction, MARK ANTHONY NEAL
25. Organizing the Hip-Hop Generation, ANGELA ARDS
26. Check Yo Self Before You Wreck Yo Self: The Death of Politics in Rap Music and Popular Culture,TODD BOYD
27. The Challenge of Rap Music from Cultural Movement to Political Power, BAKARI KITWANA
28. Rap, Race, and Politics, CLARENCE LUSANE
29. Postindustrial Soul: Black Popular Music at the Crossroads, MARK ANTHONY NEAL
Part VI :Looking for the Perfect Beat: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Technologies of Production
Part Introduction: MURRAY FORMAN
30. Airshafts, Loudspeakers, and the Hip Hop Sample: Contexts and African American Musical Aesthetics, ANDREW BARTLETT
31. Public Enemy Confrontation, MARK DERY
32. Hip-Hop: From Live Performance to Mediated Narrative, GREG DIMITRIADIS
33. Sample This, NELSON GEORGE
34. "This Is a Sampling Sport": Digital Sampling, Rap Music, and the Law in Cultural Production,THOMAS G. SCHUMACHER
35. Challenging Conventions in the Fine Art of Rap, RICHARD SHUSTERMAN
36. Hip-Hop and Black Noise: Raising Hell, RICKEY VINCENT
Part VII: I Used to Love H.E.R.: Hip-Hop in/and the Culture Industries
Part Introduction: MARK ANTHONY NEAL
37. Commercialization of the Rap Music Youth Subculture, M. ELIZABETH BLAIR
38. Dance in Hip-Hop Culture, KATRINA HAZZARD-DONALD
39. Wendy Day, Advocate for Rappers, NORMAN KELLEY
40. The Business of Rap: Between the Street and the Executive Suite, KEITH NEGUS
41. Contracting Rap: An Interview with Carmen Ashhurst-Watson, TRICIA ROSE
42. Black Youth and the Ironies of Capitalism, S. CRAIG WATKINS
43. Homies in The 'Hood: Rap's Commodification of Insubordination, TED SWEDENBURG
44. An Exploration of Spectacular Consumption: Gangsta Rap as Cultural Commodity,
ERIC K. WATTS
Introduction, MURRAY FORMAN
Part I: Hip-Hop Ya Don't Stop: Hip-Hop History and Historiography
Part Introduction, MURRAY FORMAN
1. Breaking, SALLY BANES
2. The Politics of Graffiti, CRAIG CASTLEMAN
3. Breaking and the New York City Breakers, MICHAEL HOLMAN
4. Jive Talking N.Y. DJs Rapping Away in Black Discos, ROBERT FORD, JR.
5. B-Beats Bombarding Bronx, ROBERT FORD, JR.
6. Hip-Hop's Founding Fathers Speak the Truth, NELSON GEORGE
Part II: No Time for Fake Niggas: Hip-Hop Culture and the Authenticity Debates
Part Introduction, MARK ANTHONY NEAL
7. The Culture of Hip-Hop, MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
8. Puerto Rocks: Rap, Roots, and Amnesia, JUAN FLORES
9. It's a Family Affair, PAUL GILROY
10. Hip-Hop Chicano: A Separate but Parallel Story, RAEGAN KELLY
11. On the Question of Nigga Authenticity, R.A.T. JUDY
12. Looking for the "Real" Nigga: Social Scientists Construct the Ghetto, ROBIN D.G. KELLEY
13. About a Salary or Reality?-Rap's Recurrent Conflict, ALAN LIGHT
14. The Rap on Rap: The "Black Music" that Isn't Either, DAVID SAMUELS
Part III: Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City: Hip-Hop, Space, and Place
Part Introduction, MURRAY FORMAN
15. Black Empires,White Desires: The Spatial Politics of Identity in the Age of Hip-Hop, DAVARIAN L. BALDWIN
16. Hip-Hop am Main, Rappin' on the Tyne, ANDY BENNETT
17. "Represent": Race, Space, and Place in Rap Music, MURRAY FORMAN
18. Rap and Hip-Hop: The New York Connection, DICK HEBDIGE
19. Uptown Throwdown, DAVID TOOP
Part IV: I'll Be Nina Simone Defecating on Your Microphone: Hip-Hop and Gender
Part Introduction, MARK ANTHONY NEAL
20. Translating Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop: The Musical Vernacular of Black Girls' Play, KYRA D. GAUNT
21. Empowering Self, Making Choices, Creating Spaces: Black Female Identity via Rap Music Performance, CHERYL L. KEYES
22. Hip-Hop Feminist, JOAN MORGAN
23. Seeds and Legacies: Tapping the Potential in Hip-Hop, GWENDOLYN D. POUGH
24. Never Trust a Big Butt and a Smile, TRICIA ROSE
Part V: The Message: Rap, Politics, and Resistance
Part Introduction, MARK ANTHONY NEAL
25. Organizing the Hip-Hop Generation, ANGELA ARDS
26. Check Yo Self Before You Wreck Yo Self: The Death of Politics in Rap Music and Popular Culture,TODD BOYD
27. The Challenge of Rap Music from Cultural Movement to Political Power, BAKARI KITWANA
28. Rap, Race, and Politics, CLARENCE LUSANE
29. Postindustrial Soul: Black Popular Music at the Crossroads, MARK ANTHONY NEAL
Part VI :Looking for the Perfect Beat: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Technologies of Production
Part Introduction: MURRAY FORMAN
30. Airshafts, Loudspeakers, and the Hip Hop Sample: Contexts and African American Musical Aesthetics, ANDREW BARTLETT
31. Public Enemy Confrontation, MARK DERY
32. Hip-Hop: From Live Performance to Mediated Narrative, GREG DIMITRIADIS
33. Sample This, NELSON GEORGE
34. "This Is a Sampling Sport": Digital Sampling, Rap Music, and the Law in Cultural Production,THOMAS G. SCHUMACHER
35. Challenging Conventions in the Fine Art of Rap, RICHARD SHUSTERMAN
36. Hip-Hop and Black Noise: Raising Hell, RICKEY VINCENT
Part VII: I Used to Love H.E.R.: Hip-Hop in/and the Culture Industries
Part Introduction: MARK ANTHONY NEAL
37. Commercialization of the Rap Music Youth Subculture, M. ELIZABETH BLAIR
38. Dance in Hip-Hop Culture, KATRINA HAZZARD-DONALD
39. Wendy Day, Advocate for Rappers, NORMAN KELLEY
40. The Business of Rap: Between the Street and the Executive Suite, KEITH NEGUS
41. Contracting Rap: An Interview with Carmen Ashhurst-Watson, TRICIA ROSE
42. Black Youth and the Ironies of Capitalism, S. CRAIG WATKINS
43. Homies in The 'Hood: Rap's Commodification of Insubordination, TED SWEDENBURG
44. An Exploration of Spectacular Consumption: Gangsta Rap as Cultural Commodity,
ERIC K. WATTS