That's the Joint!

<p>This newly expanded and revised third edition brings together the most important and up-to-date hip-hop scholarship in one comprehensive volume.</p><p>This intellectual mixtape is composed of 46 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. </p><p>This text is essential reading for anyone seeking deeper understanding of the profound impact of hip-hop as an intellectual, aesthetic, and cultural movement.</p> <p>Prologue "What Is Hip-Hop?" <i>Greg Tate </i><b>Part I "They Reminisce Over You": Hip-Hop History and Historiography <i>Murray Forman </i></b>1. The Politics of Graffiti <i>Craig Castleman </i>2. Zulus on a Time Bomb: Hip-Hop Meets the Rockers Downtown <i>Jeff Chang </i>3. Hip-Hop’s Founding Fathers Speak the Truth <i>Nelson George </i>4. First Ladies <i>Cristina Verán </i>5. Physical Graffiti: The History of Hip-Hop Dance <i>Jorge "Popmaster Fabel" Pabon </i>6. Postindustrial Soul: Black Popular Music at the Crossroads <i>Mark Anthony Neal </i><strong>Part II "Real Niggas Do Real Things": Hip-Hop Culture and the Authenticity Debates <em>Mark Anthony Neal </em></strong>7. Puerto Rocks: Rap, Roots, and Amnesia <i>Juan Flores </i>8. Lookin’ for the Real Nigga: Social Scientists Construct the Ghetto <i>Robin D.G. Kelley </i>9. Rapping and Repping Asian: Race, Authenticity and the Asian American <i>Oliver Wang </i>10. "Things Done Changed": Recalibrating the Real in Hip-Hop <i>Murray Forman </i>11. Sampling Ethics <i>Joseph Schloss </i>12. What Does Authenticity Mean in Today’s Hip-Hop and How Much Does it Still Matter? <i>Aaron Williams </i><b>Part III "Baby, Look the Other Way": Hip-Hop and Gender <i>Regina N. Bradley </i></b>13. The Stage Hip-Hop Feminism Built: A New Directions Essay <i>Aisha Durham, Brittney C. Cooper, and Susana M. Morris </i>14. From Boys to Men: Hip-Hop, Hood Films and the Performance of Contemporary Black Masculinity <i>Robin M. Boylorn </i>15. I Used to be Scared of the Dick: Queer Women of Color and Hip-Hop Masculinity <i>Andreana Clay </i>16. A Ratchet Lens: Black Queer Youth, Agency, Hip Hop, and the Black Ratchet Imagination <i>Bettina L. Love </i>17. "Put Some Bass in Your Walk": Notes on Queerness, Hip Hop, and the Spectacle of the Undoable <i>Scott Poulson-Bryant </i><b>Part IV "Different Modes, Different Area Codes": Hip-Hop, From the Local to the Global <i>Regina N. Bradley </i></b>18. "Represent": Race, Space, and Place in Rap Music <i>Murray Forman </i>19. The Mountaintop Ain’t Flat <i>Regina N. Bradley </i>20. "The World is Yours": The Globalization of Hip Hop Language <i>Marcyliena Morgan </i>21. "I Got the Mics On, My People Speak": On the Rise of Aboriginal Australian Hip Hop <i>Rhyan Clapham & Benjamin Kelly </i>22. Ciphers, ‘Hoods and Digital DIY Studios in India: Negotiating Aspirational Individuality and Hip Hop Collectivity <i>Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan & Jaspal Naveel Singh </i>23. Connection and Complicity in the Global South: Hip Hop Musicians and US Cultural Diplomacy <i>Kendra Salois </i>24. Hip Hop Matters: Race, Space, and Islam in Chicago <i>Su'ad Abdul Khabeer </i><b>Part V "I am Hip-Hop": Hip-Hop Identities <i>Regina N. Bradley </i></b>25. "Each One, Teach One": B-boying and Ageing <i>Mary Fogarty </i>26. Listening for the Interior in Hip-Hop and R&B Music <i>Tennille Nicole Allen & Antonia Randolph </i>27. Citizenship Without Representation?: Blackface, Misogyny, and Parody in Die Antwoord, Lupé Fiasco and Angel Haze <i>Adam Haupt </i>28. Decolonial Hip Hop: Indigenous Hip Hop and the Disruption of Settler Colonialism <i>Kyle T. Mays </i>29. Fat Mutha: Hip Hop's Queer Corpulent Poetics <i>Mecca Jamilah Sullivan </i><b>Part VI "Krip-Hop": Disability and Hip Hop <i>Mark Anthony Neal </i></b>30. Back to the Community: My Life in Rap, Poetry, and Activism <i>Leroy Moore </i>31. "And So I Bust Back": Violence, Race, and Disability in Hip Hop <i>Anna Hinton </i>32. (Live!) The Post-Traumatic Futurities of Black Debility <i>Mikko O. Koivisto </i><b>Part VII "Fight the Power": Hip-Hop and Politics <i>Mark Anthony Neal </i></b>33. This is America: Hip-Hop and the Black Lives Matter Movement <i>Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey, Lestina Dongo, and Michael Westberg </i>34. Occupy Wall Street, Racial Neoliberalism, and New York’s Hip-Hop Moguls <i>Eithne Quinn </i>35. Amicus Brief: Taylor Bell v. Itawamba County School Board <i>Erik Nielson, Charis E. Kubrin, Travis L. Gosa, Michael Render (AKA "Killer Mike"), et. al. </i>36. "AmeriKKKa’s most wanted": Hip Hop Culture and Hip Hop theology as challenges to oppression <i>Daniel White Hodge </i><b>Part VIII "Put You on Game": Academia, Pedagogy, and Institutionalized Knowledge <i>Murray Forman </i></b>37. Hip Hop Studies in Black <i>P. Khalil Saucier & Tryon P. Woods </i>38. Hip Hop and the University <i>Sara Hakeem Grewal </i>39. Let Me Blow Your Mind: Hip Hop Feminist Future in Theory and Praxis <i>Treva B. Lindsey </i>40. Hip-Hop Archives or an Archive of Hip-Hop?: A Remix Impulse <i>Mark V. Campbell </i>41. "Be Current, or You Become the Old Man": Crossing the Generational Divide in Hip-Hop Education <i>Jason D. Rawls and Emery Petchauer </i><b>Part IX "Post It or It Didn’t Happen": Hip-Hop in and as Media <i>Murray Forman </i></b>42. Black College-Radio on Predominantly White Campuses: A ‘Hip-Hop Era’ Student-Authored Inclusion Initiative <i>Anthony Kwame Harrison </i>43. "Playas’ and Players": Racial and Spatial Trespassing in Hip Hop Culture Through Video Games <i>Michael Austin </i>44. "Every Time I Dress Myself, It Go Motherfuckin' Viral": Post-Verbal Flows and Memetic Hype in Young Thug's Mumble Rap <i>Michael Waugh </i>45. City Girls, Hot Girls and the Re-Imagining of Black Women in Hip Hop and Digital Spaces <i>Kyesha Jennings </i>46. The Audacity of Clout (Chasing): Digital Strategies of Black Youth in Chicago DIY Hip-Hop <i>Jabari M. Evans and Nancy K. Baym</i></p>