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That's the Joint! The Hip-hop Studies Reader » (1st Edition)
Authors: Mark Anth Neal, Mark Anthony Neal, Mark Anthony Neal
ISBN-13: 9780415969192, ISBN-10: 0415969190
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: August 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Mark Anth Neal
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.
Book Synopsis
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."
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. I | Hip-hop ya don't stop : hip-hop history and historiography | 9 |
| 1 | Breaking | 13 |
| 2 | The politics of graffiti | 21 |
| 3 | Breaking : the history | 31 |
| 4 | B-beats bombarding Bronx : mobile DJ starts something with oldie R&B disks | 41 |
| 5 | Jive talking N.Y. DJs rapping away in black discos | 43 |
| 6 | Hip-hop's founding fathers speak the truth | 45 |
| Pt. II | No time for fake niggas : hip-hop culture and the authenticity debates | 57 |
| 7 | The culture of hip-hop | 61 |
| 8 | Puerto rocks : rap, roots, and amnesia | 69 |
| 9 | It's a family affair | 87 |
| 10 | Hip-hop Chicano : a separate but parallel story | 95 |
| 11 | On the question of nigga authenticity | 105 |
| 12 | Looking for the "real" nigga : social scientists construct the ghetto | 119 |
| 13 | About a salary or reality? - rap's recurrent conflict | 137 |
| 14 | The rap on rap : the "black music" that isn't either | 147 |
| Pt. III | Ain't no love in the heart of the city : hip-hop, space, and place | 155 |
| 15 | Black empires, white desires : the spatial politics of identity in the age of hip-hop | 159 |
| 16 | Hip-hop am main, rappin' on the Tyne : hip-hop culture as a local construct in two European cities | 177 |
| 17 | "Represent" : race, space, and place in rap music | 201 |
| 18 | Rap and hip-hop : the New York connection | 223 |
| 19 | Uptown throwdown | 233 |
| Pt. IV | I'll be Nina Simone defecating on your microphone : hip-hop and gender | 247 |
| 20 | Translating double-Dutch to hip-hop : the musical vernacular of black girls' play | 251 |
| 21 | Empowering self, making choices, creating spaces : black female identity via rap music performance | 265 |
| 22 | Hip-hop feminist | 277 |
| 23 | Seeds and legacies : tapping the potential in hip-hop | 283 |
| 24 | Never trust a big butt and a smile | 291 |
| Pt. V | The message : rap, politics, and resistance | 307 |
| 25 | Organizing the hip-hop generation | 311 |
| 26 | Check yo self before you wreck yo self : the death of politics in rap music and popular culture | 325 |
| 27 | The challenge of rap music from cultural movement to political power | 341 |
| 28 | Rap, race, and politics | 351 |
| 29 | Postindustrial soul : black popular music at the crossroads | 363 |
| Pt. VI | Looking for the perfect beat : hip-hop aesthetics and technologies of production | 389 |
| 30 | Airshafts, loudspeakers, and the hip hop sample : contexts and African American musical aesthetics | 393 |
| 31 | Public enemy confrontation | 407 |
| 32 | Hip-hop : from live performance to mediated narrative | 421 |
| 33 | Sample this | 437 |
| 34 | "This is a sampling sport" : digital sampling, rap music, and the law in cultural production | 443 |
| 35 | Challenging conventions in the fine art of rap | 459 |
| 36 | Hip-hop and black noise : raising hell | 481 |
| Pt. VII | I used to love H.E.R. : hip-hop in/and the culture industries | 493 |
| 37 | Commercialization of the rap music youth subculture | 497 |
| 38 | Dance in hip-hop culture | 505 |
| 39 | Wendy Day, advocate for rappers | 517 |
| 40 | The business of rap : between the street and the executive suite | 525 |
| 41 | Contracting rap : an interview with Carmen Ashhurst-Watson | 541 |
| 42 | Black youth and the ironies of capitalism | 557 |
| 43 | Homies in the 'hood : rap's commodification of insubordination | 579 |
| 44 | An exploration of spectacular consumption : gangsta rap as cultural commodity | 593 |
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