Filipinos Represent - 9780816679393

Filipinos RepresentDJs, Racial Authenticity, and the Hip-hop Nation\nAuthor(s): Antonio T. Tiongson Jr.\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816679393, 978-0816679393\nSynopsis\nThe Hip-hop Nation has been scouted, staked out, and settled by journalists and scholars alike. Antonio T. Tiongson Jr. steps into this well-mapped territory with questions aimed at interrogating how nation is conceptualized within the context of hip-hop. What happens, Tiongson asks, to notions of authenticity based on hip-hops apparent blackness when Filipino youth make hip-hop their own? \n\nTiongson draws on interviews with Bay Areabased Filipino American DJs to explore the authenticating strategies they rely on to carve out a niche within DJ culture. He shows how Filipino American youth involvement in DJing reconfigures the normal boundaries of Filipinoness predicated on nostalgia and cultural links with an ideali.