This newly expanded and revised third edition brings together the most important and up-to-date hip-hop scholarship in one comprehensive volume.
This newly expanded and revised third edition brings together the most important and up-to-date hip-hop scholarship in one comprehensive volume.
This intellectual mixtape is comprised of 47 readings that are organized into nine sections representing key concepts and themes: the history of hip-hop, authenticity debates, gender, the globalization of hip-hop, identities, disability, politics, hip-hop and academia, and hip-hop and the media. This new edition also includes greater coverage of gender, sexuality, and racial diversity in hip-hop; hip-hop’s global influence; and hip-hop’s role in social movements and political activism. The pedagogical features include detailed critical introductions framing each section and brief chapter introductions to help readers place each piece in context and within a broader scholarly dialogue.
This text is essential reading for anyone seeking deeper understanding of the profound impact of hip-hop as an intellectual, aesthetic, and cultural movement.
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"That's The Joint! has been an essential classroom companion for me ever since I started teaching about Hip-Hop. Tireless research, firsthand accounts from cultural icons, as well as thought-provoking post-article summaries and questions make this collection of writings a must-have in any Hip-Hop Studies environment." - Akrobatik, Hip-Hop Artist, Associate Lecturer at University of Massachusetts Boston, Honors College and American Studies Department, USA
Prologue "What Is Hip-Hop?" Greg Tate Part I "They Reminisce Over You":
Hip-Hop History and Historiography Murray Forman
1. The Politics of Graffiti
Craig Castleman
2. Zulus on a Time Bomb: Hip-Hop Meets the Rockers Downtown
Jeff Chang
3. Hip-Hops Founding Fathers Speak the Truth Nelson George
4.
First Ladies Cristina Verán
5. Physical Graffiti: The History of Hip-Hop
Dance Jorge "Popmaster Fabel" Pabon
6. Postindustrial Soul: Black Popular
Music at the Crossroads Mark Anthony Neal Part II "Real Niggas Do Real
Things": Hip-Hop Culture and the Authenticity Debates Mark Anthony Neal
7.
Puerto Rocks: Rap, Roots, and Amnesia Juan Flores
8. Lookin for the Real
Nigga: Social Scientists Construct the Ghetto Robin D.G. Kelley
9. Rapping
and Repping Asian: Race, Authenticity and the Asian American Oliver Wang
10.
"Things Done Changed": Recalibrating the Real in Hip-Hop Murray Forman
11.
Sampling Ethics Joseph Schloss
12. What Does Authenticity Mean in Todays
Hip-Hop and How Much Does it Still Matter? Aaron Williams Part III "Baby,
Look the Other Way": Hip-Hop and Gender Regina N. Bradley
13. The Stage
Hip-Hop Feminism Built: A New Directions Essay Aisha Durham, Brittney C.
Cooper, and Susana M. Morris
14. From Boys to Men: Hip-Hop, Hood Films and
the Performance of Contemporary Black Masculinity Robin M. Boylorn
15. I Used
to be Scared of the Dick: Queer Women of Color and Hip-Hop Masculinity
Andreana Clay
16. A Ratchet Lens: Black Queer Youth, Agency, Hip Hop, and the
Black Ratchet Imagination Bettina L. Love
17. "Put Some Bass in Your Walk":
Notes on Queerness, Hip Hop, and the Spectacle of the Undoable Scott
Poulson-Bryant Part IV "Different Modes, Different Area Codes": Hip-Hop, From
the Local to the Global Regina N. Bradley
18. "Represent": Race, Space, and
Place in Rap Music Murray Forman
19. The Mountaintop Aint Flat Regina N.
Bradley
20. "The World is Yours": The Globalization of Hip Hop Language
Marcyliena Morgan
21. "I Got the Mics On, My People Speak": On the Rise of
Aboriginal Australian Hip Hop Rhyan Clapham & Benjamin Kelly
22. Ciphers,
Hoods and Digital DIY Studios in India: Negotiating Aspirational
Individuality and Hip Hop Collectivity Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan & Jaspal
Naveel Singh
23. Connection and Complicity in the Global South: Hip Hop
Musicians and US Cultural Diplomacy Kendra Salois
24. Hip Hop Matters: Race,
Space, and Islam in Chicago Su'ad Abdul Khabeer Part V "I am Hip-Hop":
Hip-Hop Identities Regina N. Bradley
25. "Each One, Teach One": B-boying and
Ageing Mary Fogarty
26. Listening for the Interior in Hip-Hop and R&B Music
Tennille Nicole Allen & Antonia Randolph
27. Citizenship Without
Representation?: Blackface, Misogyny, and Parody in Die Antwoord, Lupé Fiasco
and Angel Haze Adam Haupt
28. Decolonial Hip Hop: Indigenous Hip Hop and the
Disruption of Settler Colonialism Kyle T. Mays
29. Fat Mutha: Hip Hop's Queer
Corpulent Poetics Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Part VI "Krip-Hop": Disability and
Hip Hop Mark Anthony Neal
30. Back to the Community: My Life in Rap, Poetry,
and Activism Leroy Moore
31. "And So I Bust Back": Violence, Race, and
Disability in Hip Hop Anna Hinton
32. (Live!) The Post-Traumatic Futurities
of Black Debility Mikko O. Koivisto Part VII "Fight the Power": Hip-Hop and
Politics Mark Anthony Neal
33. This is America: Hip-Hop and the Black Lives
Matter Movement Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey, Lestina Dongo, and Michael
Westberg
34. Occupy Wall Street, Racial Neoliberalism, and New Yorks Hip-Hop
Moguls Eithne Quinn
35. Amicus Brief: Taylor Bell v. Itawamba County School
Board Erik Nielson, Charis E. Kubrin, Travis L. Gosa, Michael Render (AKA
"Killer Mike"), et. al.
36. "AmeriKKKas most wanted": Hip Hop Culture and
Hip Hop theology as challenges to oppression Daniel White Hodge Part VIII
"Put You on Game": Academia, Pedagogy, and Institutionalized Knowledge Murray
Forman
37. Hip Hop Studies in Black P. Khalil Saucier & Tryon P. Woods
38.
Hip Hop and the University Sara Hakeem Grewal
39. Let Me Blow Your Mind: Hip
Hop Feminist Future in Theory and Praxis Treva B. Lindsey
40. Hip-Hop
Archives or an Archive of Hip-Hop?: A Remix Impulse Mark V. Campbell
41. "Be
Current, or You Become the Old Man": Crossing the Generational Divide in
Hip-Hop Education Jason D. Rawls and Emery Petchauer Part IX "Post It or It
Didnt Happen": Hip-Hop in and as Media Murray Forman
42. Black College-Radio
on Predominantly White Campuses: A Hip-Hop Era Student-Authored Inclusion
Initiative Anthony Kwame Harrison
43. "Playas and Players": Racial and
Spatial Trespassing in Hip Hop Culture Through Video Games Michael Austin
44.
"Every Time I Dress Myself, It Go Motherfuckin' Viral": Post-Verbal Flows and
Memetic Hype in Young Thug's Mumble Rap Michael Waugh
45. City Girls, Hot
Girls and the Re-Imagining of Black Women in Hip Hop and Digital Spaces
Kyesha Jennings
46. The Audacity of Clout (Chasing): Digital Strategies of
Black Youth in Chicago DIY Hip-Hop Jabari M. Evans and Nancy K. Baym
Murray Forman is Professor of Media & Screen Studies at Northeastern University. Along with co-editing the previous editions of Thats the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (2004, 2012), he is author of The Hood Comes First: Race, Space and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop (2002), and One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television (2012). He was an inaugural recipient of the Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellowship at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University (20142015).
Mark Anthony Neal is the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor at Duke University. He is the founIding director of the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship (CADC) at Duke and co-directs the Duke Council on Race and Ethnicity. He is author of What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1999), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002), Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities (2013), and New Black Man, Second Edition (2015). He is host of the video webcast Left of Black.
Regina N. Bradley is Associate Professor of English and African Diaspora Studies at Kennesaw State University. She is the author of Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip Hop South (2021), editor of An OutKast Reader: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Postmodern South (2021), and a faculty editor for Southern Cultures journal. She was a recipient of the Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellowship at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University (2016), and can be reached at www.redclayscholar.com.
