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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 twenty-five years of scholarship, crticism, 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. Mark Anthony Neal and Murray Forman present the most important hip-hop scholarship in one comprehensive volume. Presented thematically, the selections address the history of hip-hop, identity politics of the 'hip-hop nation', debates of 'street authenticity', gender, relvolutionary politics, aesthetics, technologies of production, hip-hop as a cultural industry, and much more.

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That's The Joint!, edited by Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal, is a ready-made cornerstone for any multidisciplinary hip-hop course... While its far-ranging scope encompasses a number of contentious topics, the book is at its best when individual entries tackle seldom debated subjects. The history of hip-hop has been documented by everyone from the underground magazine Ego Trip to VH1, rendering much of the first chapter slightly moot (refer instead to Toop's Rap Attack, for years the definitive hip-hop text). Subjects such as gangsta rap's identification with the folk legend Stagolee, as well as the unbearable whiteness of its consumer base and executive branches (both covered in the section devoted to 'Hip-Hop authenticity'), are well-covered topics in both intellectual and mainstream circles. <br>-Houston Chronicle, February 20, 2005 <br>

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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.

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