Filipinos Represent : DJs, Racial Authenticity, and the Hip-hop Nation /

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Antonio T. Tiongson draws on interviews with Bay Area-based Filipino American DJs to explore the authenticating strategies they rely on to create a niche within DJ culture. He shows that while the engagement of Filipino youth with DJ culture speaks to the broadening racial scope of hip-hop, such inv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tiongson, Antonio T., Jr., 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social Change.
Social Sciences.
Sociology & Social History.
Racism.
Race relations.
Popular culture.
Hip-hop.
Filipino Americans > Ethnic identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
popular culture.
Racisme > États-Unis.
Americains d'origine philippine > Identite ethnique.
Hip-hop > États-Unis.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > 21e siecle.
Culture populaire.
Popular Culture
Racism > United States.
Hip-hop > United States.
Popular culture > United States > 21st century.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States > Race relations.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: claiming hip-hop
  • The African Americanization of hip-hop
  • The racialization of DJ culture
  • "The scratching is what got me hooked" : Filipino American DJs in the bay area
  • "Djing as a Filipino thing" : negotiating questions of race
  • The normative boundaries of Filipinoness
  • Conclusion: reimagining the hip-hop nation
  • Notes
  • Index.

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