Legions of boom : Filipino American mobile DJ crews in the San Francisco Bay Area / Oliver Wang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wang, Oliver, 1972-

Series:

Refiguring American music.

Refiguring american music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Filipino American youth--California--San Francisco Bay Area--Music--History--20th century.

Filipino American youth.

Filipino Americans--California--San Francisco Bay Area--Ethnic identity.

Filipino Americans.

Disc jockeys--California--San Francisco Bay Area--History--20th century.

Disc jockeys.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>Oliver Wang is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach. He is the editor of <I>Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide</I> and has written for NPR, <I>Vibe</I>, <I>Wax Poetics</I>, the <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, the <I>Oakland Tribune</I>, and the <I>Village Voice</I>, amongst others.</div>

Contents:

A legion of boom

Cue it up: social preconditions for the mobile scene

Team building: mobile crew formations

Unlimited creations: the mobile scene takes off

Imaginings: building community in the showcase era

Take me out with the fader: the decline of the mobile scene

Echo effects

Captains of the field: San Francisco drill teams

Born versus sworn: Filipino American youth gangs

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8223-5890-5

0-8223-7548-6

OCLC:

1140674443