tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66149044314160426162007-04-16T11:00:53.969-07:00Oliverhttp://o-dub.comBlogger51tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6614904431416042616.post-47470635948177459642007-04-16T10:51:00.000-07:002007-04-16T11:00:54.028-07:00<img height=150 src=http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0822339226.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_V23131390_SS500_.jpg><br /><strong>"Rapping and Repping Asian: Race, Authenticity, and the Asian American MC."<br /></strong><br /><strong>Appears in </strong><strong><em><a href="http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=978-0-8223-3922-9">Alien Encounters : Popular Culture in Asian America</a></em></strong><strong><em>.<br /></em></strong><strong>Edited by Mimi Thi Nguyen, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu.<br />Published by Duke Press, 2007.</strong><br /><br />Anthology essay (solicited, refereed).<br /><br /><em>Discusses the history of Asian American rappers, from the late 1970s and through the early 2000s, paying special attention to the ways in which these artists negotiate the challenge of racial authenticity as non-Black/non-White participants..</em>Oliverhttp://o-dub.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6614904431416042616.post-11865780254027172642006-11-07T23:37:00.000-08:002007-04-16T11:00:36.313-07:00<img height=150 src=http://www.nyupress.org/images/0814775802.gif><br /><strong>"These Are The Breaks: Hip-Hop and AfroAsian Cultural (Dis)Connections."<br /></strong><br /><strong>Appears in </strong><strong><em><a href="http://www.nyupress.org/books/AfroAsian_Encounters-products_id-4848.html">AfroAsian encounters : culture, history, politics</a></em></strong><strong><em>.<br /></em></strong><strong>Edited by Heike Raphael-Hernandez and Shannon Steen.<br />Published by NYU Press, 2006.</strong><br /><br />Anthology essay (solicited, refereed).<br /><br /><em>Discusses hip-hop as a symbolic space through which Asian/African Americans encounter one another with both progressive and regressive results.</em>Oliverhttp://o-dub.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6614904431416042616.post-86100279686066599392007-02-08T00:16:00.000-08:002007-02-08T01:05:51.322-08:00<img height=150 src=http://poplicks.com/images/totalchaos.jpg><br /><strong>"Trapped In Between The Lines: The Aesthetics of Hip-Hop Journalism."</strong><br /><br /><strong>Appears in <I><a href="http://www.totalchaoshiphop.com/tc/" target="_blank">Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop</a></i>.<br />Edited by Jeff Chang.<br />Published by Basic Civitas, 2007.</strong><br /><br />Anthology essay (non-academic). <br /><br /><em>Traces the history and evolution of hip-hop journalism/criticsm from the early 1980s through present day. Looks at the relevance of publications such as <I>The Village Voice, Source, XXL, ego trip</i> and modern blogging.</em>Oliverhttp://o-dub.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6614904431416042616.post-74902503858098218592001-11-07T23:51:00.000-08:002007-02-08T01:03:07.380-08:00<img height=150 src=http://american-music.org/devel2/publications/SAMJournal.jpg><br />"<strong>Between the Notes: Finding Asian America in Popular Music</strong>."<br /><br /><strong>Appears in </strong><strong><em><a href="http://www.american-music.org/publications/journal/ammus194.htm" target="_blank">American Music</a></em></strong><strong>, 19(4), Winter 2001.</em></strong><em><br /><br /></em>Journal article (solicited, refereed).<em><br /></em><em><br />Examines how trends in Asian American popular music-making reflects changes, tensions and aspirations within the Asian American community from the 1970s until present.<br /></em>Oliverhttp://o-dub.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6614904431416042616.post-60025807580226366042007-01-08T00:09:00.000-08:002007-02-08T00:19:46.156-08:00<img src=http://ijoc.org/ojs/styles/images/IJoC_logo.gif><br /><B>Book review of Hye Seung Chung's <i>Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance.</i><br /><br />Appears in the <I>International Journal of Communication</i>, 1(1), 2007.<br /><a href="http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/42/11" target="_blank">Download available.</a></b><br /><br />Book review in journal (solicited, refereed).<br /><br /><i>Reviews Chung's "critical biography" of Korean American actor Philip Ahn and his long career in Hollywood playing a variety of "Asian" roles.</i>Oliverhttp://o-dub.com