Los Angeles, Philippines: Towards a Transpacific Politics and Poetics in Bambu's Musical Autobiography

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dc.contributor.authorLabrador, Roderick N.
dc.contributor.sponsorUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-10T00:53:19Z
dc.date.available2015-04-10T00:53:19Z
dc.date.issued2014-12-03
dc.descriptionThis 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.
dc.description.abstractDr. 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.
dc.format.digitaloriginborn digital
dc.format.extentDuration: 58 min. 30 sec.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/35793
dc.language.isoen-US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMānoa Faculty Lecture Series
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
dc.subjectBambu
dc.subject.fastFilipino Americans
dc.subject.fastRap (Music)--Social aspects
dc.subject.fastAsian American musicians
dc.titleLos Angeles, Philippines: Towards a Transpacific Politics and Poetics in Bambu's Musical Autobiography
dc.typePresentation
dc.type.dcmiMoving Image
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