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- Title
"Freaky" Asian Americans, Hip-Hop, and Musical Autobiography: An Introduction.
- Authors
Labrador, Roderick N.
- Abstract
This introduction uses the life, music, and autobiography of Fresh Kid Ice (from the 2 Live Crew) to frame a central objective in this themed cluster of essays, titled "Asian American Hip-Hop Musical Auto/Biographies," which extends our understanding of how hip-hop, and more specifically rap, in Asian America are forms of musical autobiography. Along with the contributions in the cluster, this introductory essay begins productive conversations between Asian American studies, hip-hop studies, and life writing studies. Asian American hip-hop musical autobiographies can offer alternative ways for imagining and unsettling a politics of Asian American identity and cultural production in the context of global capitalism, neoliberalism, and hiphop culture industries as they intersect with Blackness and anti-Blackness, gender, sexuality, multiracial space and place, refugee diasporas, and linguistic expressions.
- Subjects
FRESH Kid Ice (Performer); ASIAN American musicians; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; RAP music; RACIAL identity of Asian Americans; ASIAN American studies; ETHNICITY; CULTURAL production
- Publication
Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, 2018, Vol 41, Issue 3, p473
- ISSN
0162-4962
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/bio.2018.0054