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Manifest Technique: Hip Hop, Empire, and Visionary Filipino American Culture (Asian American Experience) - Softcover

Book 1 of 34: Asian American Experience

Villegas, Mark R.

 
9780252085772: Manifest Technique: Hip Hop, Empire, and Visionary Filipino American Culture (Asian American Experience)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252085779 ISBN 13: 9780252085772
Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2021

Synopsis

An obscured vanguard in hip hop
Filipino Americans have been innovators and collaborators in hip hop since the culture’s early days. But despite the success of artists like Apl.de.Ap of the Black Eyed Peas and superstar producer Chad Hugo, the genre’s significance in Filipino American communities is often overlooked. Mark R. Villegas considers sprawling coast-to-coast hip hop networks to reveal how Filipino Americans have used music, dance, and visual art to create their worlds. Filipino Americans have been exploring their racial position in the world in embracing hip hop’s connections to memories of colonial and racial violence. Villegas scrutinizes practitioners’ language of defiance, placing the cultural grammar of hip hop within a larger legacy of decolonization.

An important investigation of hip hop as a movement of racial consciousness, Manifest Technique shows how the genre has inspired Filipino Americans to envision and enact new ideas of their bodies, their history, and their dignity.  

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About the Author

Mark R. Villegas is an assistant professor of American studies at Franklin & Marshall College.

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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0252085779
ISBN 13 
9780252085772
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
240