[16] Hip-Hop: A Catalyst for Connectivity and Change w/ Jeff Chang

In this episode, Delia interviews Jeff Chang, as part of Culture by Culture’s “Musical Connections” mini-series! We laugh and discuss Asian American legacy within hip-hop, K-pop, American hegemony, community formation around hip-hop, Bruce Lee, and more!

Things discussed in this episode:

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• *’Can't Stop Won't Stop (Young Adult Edition): A Hip-Hop History’ by Jeff Chang

• *’We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation’ by Jeff Chang

• ‘We Gon' Be Alright’ interview series

• Reggae artists - Peter Tosh, Bob Marley

• Hip-hop artists - “Rapper’s Delight” by The Sugarhill Gang, MC Jin, Eazy-E, N.W.A., Dr. Dre, Invisibl Skratch Piklz, Key Kool and Rhettmatic

• ‘Mumbo Jumbo’ by Ishmael Reed

• Graffiti art

• Grace of joonsmelanindrop Episode

• “Haegeum” by Agust D (Suga from BTS)

• *“Stay True” by Hua Hsu

• The May 19th Project

• “As a cultural worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible” -Toni Cade Bambara

• Dad Episode

Guest:

This episode’s guest is Jeff Chang! You can find him here:

Site | Instagram | Twitter

Find us online:

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Support us:

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Credits:

Host, Executive Producer, Editor, Engineer: Delia

Personal Site | Personal Instagram | Personal Threads | Personal Twitter

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.

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