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Race and Cultural Politics of Japanese Hip-Hop
Ian CondryM.I.T. 1
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Announcement 1
• Next Week: SPECIAL EVENT• "Testimony of a Korean Comfort Woman"
– As a girl, Kim HwaSun was forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Forces during World War II. She will discuss her horrifying experience and psychological struggles during and after the war.
– Wednesday, February 26– 7:15pm– Killian Hall (Building 14)
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Announcement 2
• Stellar website is up and runing– Feel free to use discussion board to continue
conversations started in class.• Condry article "Introduction" (on website)
– Please read for March 5 class
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"Respect"See: http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/Arch/KS/RHYMESTER/m_disco.html
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Japanese "Wanna-be's" . . . ?
Vibe, August 2002
. . . and hip-hop fans
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Black Culture
Wild Style, 1996 Re-release flyer
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"Wild Q"Dainosuke a.k.a.
DNK
as gang member in NYC
Chusonji (1996)
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Utamaru says, • Hip-hop is a culture of the "first
person singular."
• Whether music or graffiti, everyone's yelling "I'm this!"
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Being Hip-HopMiyoshi Zenzou (2000) Tekken Gaiden
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Language
yô = "necessary"
Sakuragi-cho, Yokohama10
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What's "Japanese"?CD jacket Kohei Japan (2000)
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King GiddraSee http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/Info/kg/
from L to R:
K Dub Shine
DJ Oasis
Zeebra
Sora kara no chikara (1995)
("The Power from the Sky")12
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CensorshipSee: http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/Arch/KS/RHYMESTER/m_disco.html
Pornography symbolism on CD cover (2001)13
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Tough as . . . Hadashi no Gen
(Barefoot Gen)
See http://www.theblackmoon.com/BarefootGen/bomb.html
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ECD self-titled (1992)
Lafura Jackson / A-Twice
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New VoicesFans at "B-Boy Park 2001," Yoyogi Park, Tokyo
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Opposing the Japanese Government "Shakai no mado" DJ Oasis, Utamaru
• The government is a rotting penis behind zipper of Japan's pants
• Ministry of Ed. textbooks• Misplaced "pride" in Japan is
actually "blindness"• Smoking "old men" will die in a
gunpowder blast of their own making
• Sony refuses to release original version criticising Emperor Hirohito
Utamaru
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Global Style
July 2000, free paper cover 18
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Hip-Hop in Japan
4 elements:– Breakdance– DJ– Rap– Graffiti
Yoyogi Park, Tokyo
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