Legions of boom
Subtitle: Filipino American mobile DJ crews in the San Francisco Bay Area
By: Oliver Wang
Series: Refiguring American music; Refiguring American music
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780822358909; 9780822359043
Subjects: Filipino Americans; Filipino American youth; Music; History; Ethnic identity; Disc jockeys
Description: Chronicles the history of the San Francisco Bay Area Filipino American mobile DJ scene of the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. He shows how DJ crews helped unify the Bay Area's Filipino American community, gave its members social status and brotherhood, and drew huge crowds. --Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue. The gig; title: Introduction. A legion of boom; title: Cue it up : social preconditions for the mobile scene; title: Team building : mobile crew formations; title: Unlimited creations : the mobile scene takes off; title: Imaginings : building community in the showcase era; title: Take me out with the fader : the decline of the mobile scene; title: Conclusion. Echo effects; title: Appendix 1. Captains of the field : San Francisco drill teams; title: Appendix 2. Born versus sworn : Filipino American youth gangs.