That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader

Contents

• Introduction Murray Forman I. Hip-Hop Ya Don't Stop: Hip-Hop History and Historiography
• 1. The Politics of Graffiti Craig Castleman
• 2. Zulus on a Time Bomb: Hip-Hop Meets the Rockers Downtown Jeff Chang
• 3. B-Beats Bombarding Bronx: Mobile DJ Starts Something With Older R&B Disks and Jive Talking NY DJs Rapping Away in Black Discos Robert Ford, Jr.
• 4. Hip-Hop's Founding Fathers Speak the Truth Nelson George
• 5. Physical Graffiti: The History of Hip-Hop Dance Jorge "Fabel" Pabon
• 6. Hip-Hop Turns 30: Watcha Celebratin' For? Greg Tate II. No Time For Fake Niggas: Hip-Hop Culture and the Authenticity Debates 7 . Puerto Rocks: Rap, Roots, and Amnesia Juan Flores
• 8. It's a Family Affair Paul Gilroy
• 9. On the Question of Nigga Authenticity R.A.T. Judy
• 10. Arabic Hip-Hop: Claims of Authenticity and Identity of a New Genre Usama Kahf
• 11. Lookin' for the Real Nigga: Social Scientists Construct the Ghetto Robin D.G. Kelley
• 12. Hip-Hop Chicano: A Separate but Parallel Story Reagan Kelly
• 13. Authenticity Within Hip-Hop and Other Cultures Threatened With Assimilation Kembrew McLeod
• 14. Race...and Other Four-Letter Words: Eminem and the Cultural Politics of Authenticity Gilbert Rodman
• 15. Rapping and Repping Asian: Race, Authenticity and the Asian American Oliver Wang III. Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City: Hip-Hop, Space and Place
• 16. Black Empires, White Desires: the Spatial Politics of Identity in the Age of Hip-Hop Davarian Baldwin
• 17. 'Represent': Race, Space, and Place in Rap Music Murray Forman
• 18. Rap's Dirty South: From Subculture to Pop Culture Matt Miller
• 19. Global Black Self-Fashionings: Hip-Hop as Diasporic Space Marcus Perry
• 20. Hooligans and Heroes: Youth Identity and Hip-Hop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Alex Perullo
• 21. Native Tongues: A Roundtable on Hip-Hop's Global Indigenous Movement Cristina Veran with Darryl DLT Thompson, Litefoot, Grant Leigh Saunders, Mohammed Yunus Rafiq, and JAAS IV. I'll be Nina Simone Defecating on Your Microphone: Hip-Hop and Gender
• 22. I Used to be Scared of the Dick: Queer Women of Color and Hip-Hop Masculinity Andreana Clay
• 23. Cover Your Eyes as I Describe a Scene so Violent: Violence, Machismo, Sexism, and Homophobia Michael Eric Dyson and Byron Hurt
• 24. 'The King of the Streets': Hip Hop and the Reclaiming of Masculinity in Jerusalem's Shu'afat Refugee Camp Ela Greenberg
• 25. Scared Straight: Hip-Hop, Outing, and the Pedagogy of Queerness Marc Lamont Hill
• 26. Empowering Self, Making Choices, Creating Spaces: Black Female Identity via Rap Music Performance Cheryl L. Keyes
• 27. Hip-Hop Feminist Joan Morgan
• 28. Butta Pecan Mamis Raquel Rivera V. The Message: Rap, Politics and Resistance
• 29. Intergenerational Culture Wars: Civil Rights vs. Hip Hop Todd Boyd and Yusuf Nuruddin
• 30. The Challenge of Rap Music from Cultural Movement to Political Power Bakari Kitwana
• 31. Voyeurism and Resistance in Rap Music Videos Jennifer C. Lena
• 32. Postindustrial Soul: Black Popular Music at the Crossroads Mark Anthony Neal
• 33. My Mic Sound Nice: Art, Community and Consciousness Imani Perry
• 34. Rise Up Hip-Hop Nation: From Deconstructing Racial Politics to Building Positive Solutions Kristine Wright VI. Looking for the Perfect Beat: Hip-Hop, Technology and Rap's Lyrical Arts
• 35. Bring It to the Cypher: Hip Hop Nation Language H. Samy Alim
• 36. Airshafts, Loudspeakers, and the Hip-Hop Sample Andrew Bartlett
• 37. Hip-Hop: From Live Performance to Mediated Narrative Greg Dimitriadis
• 38. Dead Prezence: Money and Mortal Themes in Hip-Hop Culture James Peterson
• 39. Sampling Ethics Joseph Schloss VII. I Used to Love H.E.R.: Hip-Hop in/and the Culture Industries
• 40. The Rap Career Mickey Hess
• 41. The Business of Rap: Between the Street and the Executive Suite Keith Negus
• 42. 'I Don't Like to Dream About Getting Paid': Representations of Social Mobility and the Emergence of the Hip-Hop Mogul Christopher Holmes Smith
• 43. Black Youth and the Ironies of Capitalism S. Craig Watkins
• 44. An Exploration of Spectacular Consumption: Gangsta Rap as Cultural Commodity Eric K. Watts