Filipinos Represent: Djs, Racial Authenticity, and the Hip-hop Nation - Couverture souple

Tiongson Jr., Antonio T.

 
9780816679393: Filipinos Represent: Djs, Racial Authenticity, and the Hip-hop Nation
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ISBN 10 : 0816679398 ISBN 13 : 9780816679393
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2013

Synopsis

The "Hip-hop Nation" has been scouted, staked out, and settled by journalists and scholars alike. Antonio T. Tiongson Jr. steps into this well-mapped territory with questions aimed at interrogating how nation is conceptualized within the context of hip-hop. What happens, Tiongson asks, to notions of authenticity based on hip-hop's apparent blackness when Filipino youth make hip-hop their own?

Tiongson draws on interviews with Bay Area-based Filipino American DJs to explore the authenticating strategies they rely on to carve out a niche within DJ culture. He shows how Filipino American youth involvement in DJing reconfigures the normal boundaries of Filipinoness predicated on nostalgia and cultural links with an idealized homeland. Filipinos Represent makes the case that while the engagement of Filipino youth with DJ culture speaks to the broadening racial scope of hip-hop--and of what it means to be Filipino--such involvement is also problematic in that it upholds deracialized accounts of hip-hop and renders difference benign.

Looking at the ways in which Filipino DJs legitimize their place in an expressive form historically associated with African Americans, Tiongson examines what these complex forms of identification reveal about the contours and trajectory of contemporary U.S. racial formations and discourses in the post-civil rights era.

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À propos de l?auteur

Antonio T. Tiongson Jr. is assistant professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico. He is coeditor of Positively No Filipinos Allowed: Building Communities and Discourse.

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Éditeur
University of Minnesota Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0816679398
ISBN 13 
9780816679393
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
152
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2013
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