Hip-hop and Cultural Heritage
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 4: Sounds of California / Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2016 July 08
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0707_SOCA_The_Studio_0008
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: A discussion and demonstration by two California rappers who draw upon a range of influences, including their Filipino and Mixteco heritage, in their music and rhymes. Bambu started rapping as a teenager and established Native Guns with fellow Filipino American rapper Kiwi and DJ Phatrick in 2002. This group emerged from the West Coast underground hip-hop scene with a distinctive sound that sometimes included lyrics in Tagalog and a transnational perspective on social justice issues.Ray Guzman is a member of Grupo Nuu Yuku de San Miguel Cuevas. He is actively involved in the San Joaquin Valley's Mixteco farmworker community in which he grew up through his participation in cultural performance and through organizing and educational activities, which includes his work for California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc.