Wang Legions of Boom

Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews in the San Francisco Bay Area
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7548-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Refiguring American Music

Oliver Wang chronicles the history of the San Francisco Bay Area Filipino American mobile DJ scene of the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. He shows how DJ crews helped unify the Bay Area's Filipino American community, gave its members social status and brotherhood, and drew huge crowds.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wang, Oliver

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Prologue. The Gig 1

Introduction. A Legion of Boom 7

1. Cue it Up: Social Preconditions for the Mobile Scene 29

2. Team Building: Mobile Crew Formations 49

3. Unlimited Creations: The Mobile Scene Takes Off 79

4. Imaginings: Building Community in the Showcase Era 95

5. Take Me Out with the Fader: The Decline of the Mobile Scene 125

Conclusion. Echo Effects 151

Appendix 1. Captians of the Field: San Francisco Drill Teams 163

Appendix 2. Born Versus Sworn: Filipino American Youth Gangs 167

Notes 173

References 203

Index 213

Über Autor(innen)

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