Legions of boom : Filipino American mobile DJ crews in the San Francisco Bay Area /
Chronicles the history of the San Francisco Bay Area Filipino American mobile DJ scene of the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. He shows how DJ crews helped unify the Bay Area's Filipino American community, gave its members social status and brotherhood, and drew huge crowds. --Publisher'...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham, North Carolina :
Duke University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Refiguring American music.
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Table of Contents:
- A legion of boom
- Cue it up: social preconditions for the mobile scene
- Team building: mobile crew formations
- Unlimited creations: the mobile scene takes off
- Imaginings: building community in the showcase era
- Take me out with the fader: the decline of the mobile scene
- Echo effects
- Captains of the field: San Francisco drill teams
- Born versus sworn: Filipino American youth gangs.