Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/35793
Los Angeles, Philippines: Towards a Transpacific Politics and Poetics in Bambu's Musical Autobiography
Video Preview
losangelesphilippines.mp4
Not all videos support streaming previews. You will not be able to jump to portions of the video that have not been downloaded (progress shown as a yellow bar).
In cases where streaming is not supported, the full video will be loaded before playing. If your computer is capable of playing the video files, it may be advisable to download using the link below instead of trying to view it in your browser.
File | Description | Size | Format | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Dec2014-LabradorFlierFINAL.pdf | Flyer | 128.51 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
losangelesphilippines.mp4 | 320.98 MB | MPEG-4 | View/Open |
Item Summary
Title: | Los Angeles, Philippines: Towards a Transpacific Politics and Poetics in Bambu's Musical Autobiography |
Authors: | Labrador, Roderick N. |
Keywords: | Bambu |
Issue Date: | 03 Dec 2014 |
Series/Report no.: | Mānoa Faculty Lecture Series |
Abstract: | Dr. Labrador will examine the ways that Bambu, a second-generation Filipino American rapper from Los Angeles, California, constructs his life narrative throughout his mixtape, "Los Angeles, Philippines," as a counter-story that challenges majoritarian stories while simultaneously reinforcing and critiquing the operations of race, gender, sexuality, class, nation, and empire in U.S. society.
Bambu is one of the most well-known, prolific, and respected Asian American MCs in the independent Hip Hop scene and was formerly one-third of the pioneering Filipino American rap group, Native Guns. Bambu collaborated with the legendary DJ Muggs to produce "Los Angeles, Philippines." Muggs is famed for his work as the DJ/Producer of Cypress Hill and Soul Assassins. With its self-conscious, self-referential style similar to Chuck D's "Autobiography of Mistachuck," "Los Angeles, Philippines" works as a musical autobiography that connects individual and collective memory, narrative, and engagement with the everyday world. |
Description: | This item includes a video recording of a Mānoa Faculty Lecture Series presentation that took place in the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Library and also a flyer for that presentation. |
Pages/Duration: | Duration: 58 min. 30 sec. |
URI/DOI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/35793 |
Rights: | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States |
Appears in Collections: | Mānoa Faculty Lecture Series |
Please contact sspace@hawaii.edu if you need this content in an alternative format.
Items in ScholarSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.