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Informationen zum Autor Oliver Wang is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach. He is the editor of Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide and has written for NPR, Vibe, Wax Poetics, the Los Angeles Times, the Oakland Tribune, and the Village Voice, amongst others. Klappentext Oliver Wang is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach. He is the editor of Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide and has written for NPR, Vibe, Wax Poetics, the Los Angeles Times, the Oakland Tribune, and the Village Voice, amongst others. Zusammenfassung Oliver Wang 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Prologue. The Gig 1 Introduction. A Legion of Boom 7 1. Cue it Up: Social Preconditions for the Mobile Scene 29 2. Team Building: Mobile Crew Formations 49 3. Unlimited Creations: The Mobile Scene Takes Off 79 4. Imaginings: Building Community in the Showcase Era 95 5. Take Me Out with the Fader: The Decline of the Mobile Scene 125 Conclusion. Echo Effects 151 Appendix 1. Captians of the Field: San Francisco Drill Teams 163 Appendix 2. Born Versus Sworn: Filipino American Youth Gangs 167 Notes 173 References 203 Index 213