Wicked theory, naked practice
Subtitle: A Fred Ho reader
By: Fred Ho ; edited by Diane C. Fujino ; foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley ; afterword by Bill V. Mullen.
Contributors: Fujino, Diane Carol.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9780816656844; 9780816656851
Subjects: Jazz -- History and criticism; Music -- Social aspects; Asian American musicians; Asian Americans -- Social conditions
Other titles: Fred Ho reader
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The movement and the self . From banana to Third World Marxist ; Beyond Asian American jazz : my musical and political changes in the Asian American movement ; Interview with Chris Mitchell; title: Music, aesthetics, and cultural production. What makes "jazz" the revolutionary music of the twentieth century, and will it be revolutionary for the twenty-first century? ; Musical borrowings, exchanges, and fusions : new/experimental genres ; Kreolization and the hybridity of resistance vs. cultural imperialism ; Highlights in the history of "jazz" not covered by Ken Burns : a request from Ishmael Reed ; The damned don't cry : the life and music of Calvin Massey ; How to sell but not sell out : personal lessons from making a career as a subversive and radical performing artist ; Big Red Media, Inc., a composer/musician-driven production company : doing it yourself; title: Asian Pacific American cultural theory and criticism. An Asian American tribute to the black arts movement ; Asian American music and empowerment : is there such a thing as "Asian American Jazz"? ; Interview with Amy Ling ; A voice is a voice, but what is it saying? (with Arthur Song) ; Where Is the Asian American love? ; Bamboo that snaps back! : resistance and revolution in Asian Pacific American working class and left-wing expressive culture ; Tomoe Tana : keeping alive Japanese American tanka ; Hole hole bushi : cultural/musical resistance by Japanese women plantation workers in early twentieth-century Hawaii (with Susan Asai); title: Wicked theory, naked practice. The inspiration of Mao and the Chinese revolution on the black liberation movement and the Asian movement on the East Coast ; Notes on the national question : oppressed nations and liberation struggles within the U.S.A. ; Matriarchy : the first and final communism ; Momentum for change ; Flags, falsehoods, and facism : as long as imperialism exists, chickens will come home to roost!