JOE SCHLOSS

Joe Schloss is an interdisciplinary scholar who studies how people use hip hop culture to develop new perspectives on social, cultural and political issues. A past recipient of the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Charles Seeger Prize, he is the author of Foundation: B-Boys, B-Girls and Hip-Hop Culture in New York (Oxford University Press: 2009), and Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop (Wesleyan University Press: 2004/2014), which won the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Book Prize in 2005. His writing has appeared in the anthologies Total Chaos and Classic Material, and magazines including URB, Vibe, The Seattle Weekly, and The Flavor. He teaches at the City University of New York and Princeton University.