- Missed Tuesday’s films
- Wednesday’s writing prompt was very helpful in helping narrow where I want to take this project
- What I am reading about the use of jazz and the forging of a new Asian American identity is very fascinating.
- Plight of one minority group being the starting point of another oppressed groups
Jazz rap
Korean-American DJ/MC: Kero One
Korean-American DJ/MC: Azure
- http://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/2009/11/bassist_tatsu_aoki_on_asian_american_jazz.html
Asian-American jazz bassist on the realtionship between Asian-Americans and jazz.
“The reason that we’re calling this Asian American music, or Asian American jazz, is that we’re basing our artistic venture with our Asian American experience. So I think that is a specific agenda, but I think artistic collaboration is, like you said, colorless.” (Tatsu Aoki)
“So you’re emphasizing the American part of Asian American?”
“Right. Because we’re really viewed many times as foreigners. Any of the bad jokes coming from where you’re from — all the Chinaman jokes — that’s really based on the fact that you’re still a foreigner. And we sometimes feel that we do not earn equal citizenship as members of the community. And that was basically the origin of the [Asian American] movement, both in arts and the social movement in the ’80s. At least with my organization.”
- Ulanov, Barry. “Jazz: Issues of Identity.” The Musical Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 2, 1979, pp. 245–256. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/741706.
“In jazz, identity is everything. the marks by which we recognize a player or singer are the form and content of the music. As in almost no other art, individual identity shapes the structure of jazz. it obsesses the player or singer and haunts his or her audience.” (Barry Ulanov, Jazz: Issues of Identitiy, 245)
- https://jazztimes.com/features/east-meets-left-politics-culture-and-asian-american-jazz/
Article from 2003, so keep in mind when reading. Discusses jazz and race.
Fred Ho- Read more on, listen to albums, thoughts on jazz and identity really interesting. Jazz and race
- Ho, Fred. “Beyond Asian American Jazz: My Musical and Political Changes in the Asian American Movement.” Leonardo Music Journal, vol. 9, 1999, pp. 45–51. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1513476.
This article deals with Japanese-American jazz musician Fred Ho and his thoughts on jazz and identity.
Identity forms self around the music, while the music forms itself around the identity.
- http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/ac04/bsiegel_id.html
Article that discusses jazz’s ability to speak to one’s experiences. talks about jazz and it’s fusion with other music’s to help foster a groups own music. Jazz and it’s function in defining one’s own identity.