“‘Change That Wouldn’t Fill a Homeless Man’s Cup Up’: Filipino-American Political Hip Hop and Community Organizing in the Age of Obama.”
| dc.contributor.author | Harrison, Anthony Kwame | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-09T22:13:34Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2017-01-09T22:13:34Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-11-01 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | "SOMETIMES RAPPIN' AIN'T ENOUGH" In the opening verse to its 2011 song "Sunshine; Power Struggle lead vocalist Nomi enounces that "political rap is like a trap sometimes." As an African-diasporic orature form, forged within the collusive cauldrons where the trials of postindustrial disenfranchisement mix with the resiliencies of subaltern innovation, hip hop lyricism is inherently ambiguous and political. The trap that Nomi (possibly) refers to is set along the well-worn path between artistic intention and public reception. Whereas questions of multiple interpretations dominate music of any sort, and art more generally, the brilliance of the "Sunshine" lyric lies in its spotlighting how such concerns are amplified within a hip hop form that is characterized as deliberately and pointedly political... | en |
| dc.description.notes | < EDITORS: Travis L. Gosa and Erik Nielson >< REFEREED: Yes >< USER_REFERENCE_CREATOR: Yes >< PUB_END: 2015-11-30 >< DTx_PUB: 11/2015 > | en |
| dc.description.notes | This chapter looks at the resurgence of political consciousness and embrace of community organizing in underground hip hop during the age of Obama. It does this by focusing on one particular group of hip hop artists/culture workers. Since 2000, a distinctly Filipino American hip hop music movement has emerged on the U.S. West Coast. The scene was founded on a critique of the historical and contemporary implications of U.S. imperialism for people of color and the working class. This music, authored by members of a highly politicized ethno-racial minority who stand outside the traditional black/white binaries that characterize U.S. race relations and hip hop's racial politics, aspires to expose injustices in U.S. domestic and foreign policies, undermine existing structures of power and inequality, and mobilize local grassroots communities to protest and political action. | en |
| dc.description.version | Published version | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/74034 | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | The Hip Hop & Obama Reader | en |
| dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
| dc.title | “‘Change That Wouldn’t Fill a Homeless Man’s Cup Up’: Filipino-American Political Hip Hop and Community Organizing in the Age of Obama.” | en |
| dc.type | Book chapter | en |
| pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech | en |
| pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech/All T&R Faculty | en |
| pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech/Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | en |
| pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech/Liberal Arts and Human Sciences/CLAHS T&R Faculty | en |
| pubs.organisational-group | /Virginia Tech/Liberal Arts and Human Sciences/Sociology | en |