Diasporic Blues Imagination: Filipino Becoming and African American Solidarity

• 발행기관: 건국대학교 모빌리티인문학 연구원, 건국대학교 아시아·디아스포라 연구소
• 저자명: Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao
• 간행물 정보: 『International Journal of Diaspora&Cultural Criticism』Vol.11 No.1, 6~51쪽, 전체 46쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2021.01.30

영문 초록

Filipinos are scattered all around the planet—forming a diasporic community of approximately 12 million. In the United States, there are over 4 million Filipinos. Mass migration of Filipinos is intimately intertwined with the unfolding history of the Philippines— a country still in the process of becoming free from its colonial past and neocolonial present. The art (literature and music) created by Filipino migrant artists is explored to gain insight into their understanding of the process of Filipino becoming. This paper examines the “Filipino blues” in Filipino migrant literature (Bienvenido Santos and Carlos Bulosan) and Filipino migrant popular music (Charmaine Clamor and Ruby Ibarra). The “Filipino blues” aesthetic in Filipino migrant art has a bridge-building function. On one hand, it sustains historical memory of solidarity between African Americans and Filipinos. On the other hand, it sustains historical linkages between Filipinos abroad (in the diaspora) and Filipinos in the Philippines mobilizing for self-determination and genuine sovereignty. By providing a feminist rearticulation of the “Filipino blues” of an earlier generation of Filipino migrant artists such as Bulosan and Santos, Clamor’s jazzipino and Ibarra’s hip hop highlight new dimensions of the Filipino diasporic blues imagination in the 21st century.

목차

1. Reflections on the Filipino Diaspora

2. Blues and Becoming

3. The Blues of Carlos Bulosan: From Strategies of Survival to Collective Resistance

4. Turning the Beat Around: Filipina Feminist Voices and Diasporic Blues

5. Swinging the Beat: Filipino Blues + African American Jazz = Jazzipino

6. Breaking it Down: Filipina Feminist Blues Consciousness and Hip Hop

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키워드

Filipino migration Filipino migrant art (literature, jazz, hip hop) Filipina feminism African American blues U.S.-Philippine relations