num_pages: 628
description: 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 25 years of scholarship, criticism, 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. 
  That's the Joint 
presents the most important hip-hop scholarship in one comprehensive volume, addressing hip-hop as both a musical and a cultural practice. Think of it as "Hip-Hop 101."
language: English
title: That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader
titlecomplete: That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader
genres: Cultural, Academic, Music, Nonfiction, Essays, Cultural Studies, Art, Hip Hop, Race, History
ratings_count: 171
publisher: Routledge