{"id":29816,"date":"2014-12-01T14:51:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T00:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=29816"},"modified":"2021-10-19T13:04:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T23:04:04","slug":"analysis-of-hip-hop-artist-bambu-wraps-up-faculty-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/12\/01\/analysis-of-hip-hop-artist-bambu-wraps-up-faculty-lecture-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis of hip-hop artist Bambu wraps up faculty lecture series"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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DJ Muggs and Bambu, Los Angeles, Philippines<\/em> (mixtape)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Professor Roderick Labrador<\/strong> presents “Los Angeles, Philippines: Toward a Transpacific Politics and Poetics in Bambu’s Musical Autobiography” on Wednesday, December 3, 11:30 a.m. in Hamilton Library Room 301. The final presentation of the Fall 2014 Faculty Lecture Series<\/a> is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

Labrador examines the ways that Bambu, a second-generation Filipino-American rapper from Los Angeles, California, constructs his life narrative throughout his mixtape, Los Angeles, Philippines<\/em>. It is a counterstory challenging majoritarian stories while simultaneously reinforcing and critiquing the operations of race, gender, sexuality, class, nation and empire in U.S. society.<\/p>\n

Bambu is a well-known, prolific and respected Asian-American member of the independent hip-hop scene and was formerly one-third of the pioneering Filipino-American rap group, Native Guns. With its self-conscious, self-referential style similar to Chuck D’s Autobiography of Mistachuck<\/em>, Los Angeles, Philippines<\/em> works as a musical autobiography that connects individual and collective memory, narrative and engagement with the everyday world.<\/p>\n

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More on Roderick Labrador<\/h2>\n

Labrador’s research and community work focuses on race, ethnicity, class, culture, language, migration, education, hip-hop and cultural production in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, the U.S. and Philippines.<\/p>\n

He hosts “Inside the Ethnic Studies Studio,” in which he and his students conduct interviews, workshops and forums with local, national and international hip-hop artists at UH<\/abbr> Mānoa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Roderick Labrador wraps up 2014 UH<\/abbr> Mānoa Faculty Lecture Series with an analysis of Filipino-American hip-hop artist Bambu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[229,9],"class_list":["post-29816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-ethnic-studies","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t