Tag: music

  • Sugar Pie DeSanto: After 50 Years, ‘Go Going’ Strong Fresh Air from WHYY [Philadelphia] National Public Radio 2010-07-29 Terry Gross, Host Ed Ward, Rock Music Commentator Ace Records Sugar Pie DeSanto was born in Brooklyn in October 1935, and was christened Umpeleya Marsema Balinton. Her father was Filipino, her mother African-American. Her mother had been…

  • “Japanese in the Samba”: Japanese Brazilian Musical Citizenship, Racial Consciousness, and Transnational Migration University of Pittsburgh 2008 213 pages Shanna Lorenz, Assistant Professor of Music Occidental College, Los Angeles, California Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy his doctoral dissertation…

  • The Chican@ Hip Hop Nation: Politics of a New Millennial Mestizaje Michigan State University Press 2013-11-01 310 pages 6 in x 9 in Paperback ISBN: 9781611860863 eBook ISBN: 9781609173753 Pancho McFarland, Associate Professor of Sociology Chicago State University The population of Mexican-origin peoples in the United States is a diverse one, as reflected by age,…

  • Jahaji Bhai: The emergence of a Dougla poetics in Trinidad and Tobago Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Volume 5, Issue 4, 1999 Special Issue: Fight the Power: Changing forms of Consciousness and Protest pages 569-601 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1999.9962630 Rhoda Reddock, Professor of Gender and Development Studies University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad…

  • Japanese-Canadian hapa woman makes opera fun Global Asian Women: Stories for and about Asian women around the world 2013-07-31 Elizabeth Noh Her name means a solo piece in an opera, and it just so happens that Aria Umezawa is a trained opera singer. The mixed Japanese-Canadian is also the co-founder and artistic director of Opera…

  • ‘Las Caras Lindas’: To Be Black And Puerto Rican In 2013 Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2013-05-25 Jasmine Garsd I am a black man Who was born café con leche I sneaked into a party, to which I had not been invited. And I got kicked out. They threw…

  • Nihon NY – Episode 30 – JERO Japan Society NYC 2012-06-18 Pittsburgh-native, Tokyo-based enka superstar JERO made his New York debut at Japan Society earlier this month. With his smooth voice and hip-hop stylings, JERO has breathed new life into this sentimental Japanese music genre often associated with themes of one’s hometown, lost loves and…

  • Poetic Justice: Drake and East African Girls The Feminist Wire 2013-04-03 Safy-Hallan Farah, Guest Contributor I am an East African Girl. A couple years ago, one of my friends told me that being an East African meant I’m not really black. A visibly mixed-race girl with a “high yellow” complexion and sandy brown hair telling…

  • Can Drake Save the Bar Mitzvah? The Jewish Week Blog: Well Versed 2012-04-12 Eric Herschthal When Drake’s new video, “HYFR,” dropped [was released] over the weekend—in which the Jewish, biracial hip-hop superstar raps at a bar mitzvah—I was thrilled. Initially. For years, pop culture references to the Jewish rite of passage have been stuck in…

  • Not Another Remix: How Obama Became the First Hip-Hop President Journal of Popular Music Studies Volume 22, Issue 4, December 2010 pages 389–415 DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-1598.2010.01252.x Travis L. Gosa, Assistant Professor of Social Science at Cornell University Cornell University January 20, 2009 marked the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama as the first African-American president of the United…