ABSTRACT
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
part |4 pages
Part I: Hip-Hop Ya Don’t Stop: Hip-Hop History and Historiography
part |4 pages
Part II: No Time for Fake Niggas: Hip-Hop Culture and the Authenticity Debates
part |5 pages
Part III: Ain’t No Love in the Heart of the City: Hip-Hop, Space, and Place
part |4 pages
Part IV: I’ll Be Nina Simone Defecating on Your Microphone: Hip-Hop and Gender
part |4 pages
Part V: The Message: Rap, Politics, and Resistance
part |5 pages
Part VI: Looking for the Perfect Beat: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Technologies of Production
part |5 pages
Part VII: I Used to Love H.E.R.: Hip-Hop in/and the Culture Industries