[14] The Path from Appropriation to Appreciation and Beyond w/ Jason Chu

In this episode, Delia interviews hip-hop artist, activist, and speaker, Jason Chu, as part of Culture by Culture’s “Musical Connections” mini-series! We discuss the dynamics between cultural appropriation and appreciation, musical inspiration, nuance in a world of simplicity, making human connection, and more!

Things discussed in this episode:

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• Jason’s talk, “Appropriators or Originators: APIs, Hip-Hop, and Authenticity”

• Hip-hop artists - Aesop Rock, Deltron 3030, Del the Funky Homosapien, Jay Z, Nas, Wu Tang, Mos def, Talib Kweli, Black Star, Fugees, Ms Lauryn Hill, Lil Baby, Polo G, Sheff G, Kendrick Lamar, Tupac, Cardi B, Ice Spice

• Viet Nguyen concept of “narrative plenitude,” from *‘Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War’

• Takashi Murakami theory of Japanese pop-culture as a response to the atomic bombs from “Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Sub-Culture”

• API RISE

Guest:

This episode’s guest is Jason Chu! You can find him here:

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Credits:

Host, Executive Producer, Editor, Engineer: Delia

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About Culture by Culture:

Culture by Culture is a multidimensional podcast exploration into Black and Asian pop-cultural ties. Part sociology, history, and pop-culture podcast, it covers everything from deep-dives into our favorite gateway media, interviews with experts to help guide us through our historical and current cultural connections, and conversations with fellow nerds digging into our cultural identities and our pop-cultural interests.

Our mission is to understand and foster the unity that has historically existed between our cultures through our shared interests in each other’s pop-culture.