Wicked Theory, Naked Practice
Title | Wicked Theory, Naked Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Fred Wei-han Ho |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0816656843 |
A leading Asian American artist & activist on the explosive intersection of politics and music.
Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965-1996: Volume 3
Title | Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965-1996: Volume 3 PDF eBook |
Author | Asha Nadkarni |
Publisher | Asian American Literature in T |
Pages | 437 |
Release | 2021-06-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108843859 |
This volume traces the formation of the Asian American literary canon and the field of Asian American Studies from 1965-1996. It is intended for an academic audience, ranging from advanced undergraduate students to scholars from a variety of disciplines, interested in the formation of Asian American literary studies from 1965-1996.
American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2
Title | American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Will Kaufman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 919 |
Release | 2022-08-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1009085948 |
Long before anyone ever heard of 'protest music', people in America were singing about their struggles. They sang for justice and fairness, food and shelter, and equality and freedom; they sang to be acknowledged. Sometimes they also sang to oppress. This book uncovers the history of these people and their songs, from the moment Columbus made fateful landfall to the start of the Second World War, when 'protest music' emerged as an identifiable brand. Cutting across musical genres, Will Kaufman recovers the passionate voices of America itself. We encounter songs of the mainland and the conquered territories of Hawai'i, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines; we hear Indigenous songs, immigrant songs and Klan songs, minstrel songs and symphonies, songs of the heard and the unheard, songs of the celebrated and the anonymous, of the righteous and the despicable. This magisterial book shows that all these songs are woven into the very fabric of American history.
Yellow Power, Yellow Soul
Title | Yellow Power, Yellow Soul PDF eBook |
Author | Roger N. Buckley |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2013-04-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0252094700 |
This dynamic collection explores the life, work, and persona of saxophonist Fred Ho, an unabashedly revolutionary artist whose illuminating and daring work redefines the relationship between art and politics. Scholars, artists, and friends give their unique takes on Ho's career, articulating his artistic contributions, their joint projects, and personal stories. Exploring his musical and theatrical work, his political theory and activism, and his personal life as it relates to politics, Yellow Power, Yellow Soul offers an intimate appreciation of Fred Ho's irrepressible and truly original creative spirit. Contributors are Roger N. Buckley, Peggy Myo-Young Choy, Jayne Cortez, Kevin Fellezs, Diane C. Fujino, Magdalena Gómez, Richard Hamasaki, Esther Iverem, Robert Kocik, Genny Lim, Ruth Margraff, Bill V. Mullen, Tamara Roberts, Arthur J. Sabatini, Kalamu ya Salaam, Miyoshi Smith, Arthur Song, and Salim Washington.
The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies
Title | The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Cindy I-Fen Cheng |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 767 |
Release | 2016-12-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 131781391X |
The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies brings together leading scholars and scholarship to capture the state of the field of Asian American Studies, as a generation of researchers have expanded the field with new paradigms and methodological tools. Inviting readers to consider new understandings of the historical work done in the past decades and the place of Asian Americans in a larger global context, this ground-breaking volume illuminates how research in the field of Asian American Studies has progressed. Previous work in the field has focused on establishing a place for Asian Americans within American history. This volume engages more contemporary research, which draws on new archives, art, literature, film, and music, to examine how Asian Americans are redefining their national identities, and to show how race interacts with gender, sexuality, class, and the built environment, to reveal the diversity of the United States. Organized into five parts, and addressing a multitude of interdisciplinary areas of interest to Asian American scholars, it covers: • a reframing of key themes such as transnationality, postcolonialism, and critical race theory • U.S. imperialism and its impact on Asian Americans • war and displacement • the garment industry • Asian Americans and sports • race and the built environment • social change and political participation • and many more themes. Exploring people, practice, politics, and places, this cutting-edge volume brings together the best themes current in Asian American Studies today, and is a vital reference for all researchers in the field.
Sounding Our Way Home
Title | Sounding Our Way Home PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Miyo Asai |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2024-01-18 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1496847652 |
A product of twenty-five years of archival and primary research, Sounding Our Way Home: Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity narrates the efforts of three generations of Japanese Americans to reach “home” through musicking. Using ethnomusicology as a lens, Susan Miyo Asai examines the musical choices of a population that, historically, is considered outside the racial and ethnic boundaries of American citizenship. Emphasizing the notion of national identity and belonging, the volume provokes a discussion about the challenges of nation-building in a democratic society. Asai addresses the politics of music, interrogating the ways musicking functions as a performance of social, cultural, and political identification for Japanese Americans in the United States. Musicking is an inherently political act at the intersection of music, identity, and politics, particularly if it involves expressing one’s ethnicity and/or race. Asai further investigates how Japanese American ethnic identification and cultural practices relate to national belonging. Musicking cultivates a narrative of a shared history and aesthetic between performers and listeners. The discourse situates not only Japanese Americans, but all Asians into the Black/white binary of race relations in the United States. Sounding Our Way Home contributes to the ongoing struggle for acceptance and equal representation for people of color in the US. A history of Japanese American musicking across three generations, the book unveils the social and political discrimination that nonwhite immigrants and their offspring continue to face when it comes to finding acceptance in US society and culture.
Samurai Among Panthers
Title | Samurai Among Panthers PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Carol Fujino |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0816677867 |
The first biography of Asian American activist and Black Panther Party member Richard Aoki