Filipino-American Soundscapes
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)
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content: 2016 July 10
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0710_SOCA_Stage_and_Plaza_0006
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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: Danilo Alcaraz Deocampo; Patrick Kuang-Hua Huang; Oliver Shin-Shen Wang Artists from California's Filipino American communities, representing the state's largest Asian American population, have been an energetic force in shaping both local, national, and transnational music scenes.Bambu and DJ Phatrick are an MC and DJ who have been creative collaborators for more than a decade, making socially conscious rap with a purpose. Formerly members of the Filipino-American rap group Native Guns (along with rapper Kiwi), their work emerges from the West Coast underground hip-hop scene and is distinctive for a sound that sometimes includes lyrics in Tagalog and a transnational perspective on social justice issues.