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Manifest technique : hip hop, empire, and visionary Filipino American culture
- Title
- Manifest technique : hip hop, empire, and visionary Filipino American culture / Mark R. Villegas.
- Author
- Villegas, Mark R.
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
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- Description
- xv, 209 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Filipino Americans have been innovators and collaborators in hip hop since the culture's early days. But despite the success of artists like Apl.de.Ap of the Black Eyed Peas and superstar producer Chad Hugo, the genre's significance in Filipino American communities is often overlooked. Mark R. Villegas considers sprawling coast-to-coast hip hop networks to reveal how Filipino Americans have used music, dance, and visual art to create their worlds. Filipino Americans have been exploring their racial position in the world in embracing hip hop's connections to memories of colonial and racial violence. Villegas scrutinizes practitioners' language of defiance, placing the cultural grammar of hip hop within a larger legacy of decolonization. An important investigation of hip hop as a movement of racial consciousness, Manifest Technique shows how the genre has inspired Filipino Americans to envision and enact new ideas of their bodies, their history, and their dignity"--
- Series Statement
- The Asian American experience
- Uniform Title
- Asian American experience.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-202) and index.
- Contents
- Preface: On constant replay -- Introduction: Savage folklorists in your empire -- Currents of militarization, flows of hip hop : expanding the geographies of Filipino American culture -- "Civilize the savage" : toward Islam, Filipino origin, and the golden age -- Nation in the universe : the cosmic vision of Afro-Filipino futurism -- Postcolonial bodies, modern postures : erasure and community formation in Filipino American hip hop dance culture -- Conclusion: Work I manifest.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-674
- ISBN
- 9780252043789
- 0252043782
- 9780252085772
- 0252085779
- LCCN
- 2021005206
- OCLC
- 1196242932
- Author
- Villegas, Mark R., author.
- Title
- Manifest technique : hip hop, empire, and visionary Filipino American culture / Mark R. Villegas.
- Publisher
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The Asian American experienceAsian American experience.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-202) and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Villegas, Mark R. Manifest technique Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021] 9780252052682 (DLC) 2021005207
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-674