That's the joint!: the hip-hop studies reader

pt. 1. Hip-hop ya don't stop : hip-hop history and historiography / Murray Forman

Breaking / Sally Banes

The politics of graffiti / Craig Castleman

Breaking : the history / Michael Holman

B-beats bombarding Bronx : Mobile DJ starts something with oldie R&B disks / Robert Ford, Jr.

Jive talking N.Y. DJs rapping away in black discos / Robert Ford, Jr.

Hip-hop's founding fathers speak the truth / Nelson George.

pt. 2. No time for fake niggas : hip-hop culture and the authenticity debates / Mark Anthony Neal

The culture of hip-hop / Michael Eric Dyson

Puerto rocks : rap, roots, and amnesia / Juan Flores

It's a family affair / Paul Gilroy

Hip-hop Chicano : a separate but parallel story / Raegan Kelly

On the question of nigga authenticity / R.A.T. Judy

Looking for the "real" nigga : social scientists construct the ghetto / Robin D.G. Kelley

About a salary or reality?

rap's recurrent conflict / Alan Light

The rap on rap : the "black music" that isn't either / David Samuels.

pt. 3. Ain't no love in the heart of the city : hip-hop, space, and place / Murray Forman

Black empires, white desires : the spatial politics of identity in the age of hip-hop / Davarian L. Baldwin

Hip-hop am Main, rappin' on the Tyne : hip-hop culture as a local construct in two European cities / Andy Bennett

"Represent" : race, space, and place in rap music / Murray Forman

Rap and hip-hop : the New York connection / Dick Hebdige

Uptown throwdown / David Toop.

pt. 4. I'll be Nina Simone defecating on your microphone : hip-hop and gender / Mark Anthony Neal

Translating double-dutch to hip-hop : the musical vernacular of black girls' play / Kyra D. Gaunt

Empowering self, making choices, creating spaces : black female identity via rap music performance / Cheryl L. Keyes

Hip-hop feminist / Joan Morgan

Seeds and legacies : tapping the potential in hip-hop / Gwendolyn D. Pough

Never trust a big butt and a smile / Tricia Rose.

pt. 5. The message : rap, politics, and resistance / Mark Anthony Neal

Organizing the hip-hop generation / Angela Ards

Check yo self before you wreck yo self : the death of politics in rap music and popular culture / Todd Boyd

The challenge of rap music from cultural movement to political power / Bakari Kitwana

Rap, race, and politics / Clarence Lusane

Postindustrial soul : black popular music at the crossroads / Mark Anthony Neal.

pt. 6. Looking for the perfect beat : hip-hop aesthetics and technologies of production / Murray Forman

Airshafts, loudspeakers, and the hip hop sample : contexts and African American musical aesthetics / Andrew Bartlett

Public enemy confrontation / Mark Dery

Hip-hop : from live performance to mediated narrative / Greg Dimitriadis

Sample this / Nelson George

"This is a sampling sport" : digital sampling, rap music, and the law in cultural production / Thomas G. Schumacher

Challenging conventions in the fine art of rap / Richard Shusterman

Hip-hop and black noise : raising hell / Rickey Vincent

Dance in hip-hop culture / Katrina Hazzard-Donald

Wendy Day, advocate for rappers / Norman Kelley

The business of rap: an inteview with Carmen Ashhurst-Watson / Tricia Rose

An exploration of spectacular consumption: gangsta rap as cultural commodity / Eric K. Watts.