Inaugural Global Asia(s) Lecture

With Dr. Andrew F. Jones
A poster with a Grey background and two images. Left image is of an african american man in a postcard style with the word Barry Brown on the left corner and Far East on the right corner. Right image is in a red tint and has an Asian man on the left side (foreground) and two African American people on the right side (background). Above the images there is a border with musical notes. The right hand corner of the border has the RIDGS logo and beside it is a QR code to sign up for the talk.
Event Date & Time
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Event Location
216 Pillsbury Drive Room 135

216 Pillsbury Dr SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Dr. Andrew F. Jones (Agassiz Professor of Chinese, Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley) will join the RIDGS Approaching Global Asia(s) Working Group to present their inaugural Global Asia(s) Lecture. The Approaching Global Asia(s) Working Group is made up of graduate students across disciplines and exists to "open up thematics, discuss methodological approaches, and steer stimulating conversations in the emerging field of Global Asia(s), combining area studies, ethnic studies, digital culture, and diaspora studies. And to focus on narrative construction of identities, mobility, decoloniality, and cultural praxis as our guiding theme. We will approach questions of politics, culture, and global exchange through the registers of fiction, film, sport, and mixed media (including narratives in video games)."
 
Lecture Abstract:

"The Far East Sound In Jamaica"

This paper revolves around a cohort of Hakka Chinese entrepreneurs, record producers, and musicians who played an important role in shaping Jamaican music in the 1960s and 1970s. Chinese-Jamaican producers like Clive Chin, Herman Chin-Loy, and Joseph Hoo-Kim not only recorded and marketed some of the first examples of the vastly influential and innovative genre of studio remixes known as dub music, but also contributed to the rise of a new and historically plangent subgenre in reggae called the "far east sound." My presentation will explore how "China" sounded in the seemingly unlikely setting of a newly independent Afro-Caribbean island nation, and what this subgenre can tell us about imperial geographies, migrations of labor and capital, music technology, and the sonic shaping of a postcolonial 'home.' 

 

Co-sponsored by: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, American Studies, Performance Studies, the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, the Immigration History Research Center, Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, History, and Moving Image, Media & Sound.

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