Oliver Wang

Legions of Boom

Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews in the San Francisco Bay Area

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 172mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780822359043
• ISBN-10: 0822359049
• Artikelnr.: 41370044

Autorenporträt

Oliver Wang

Inhaltsangabe

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