Yellow Power, Yellow Soul
ebook ∣ The Radical Art of Fred Ho · Asian American Experience
By Roger N. Buckley
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This dynamic collection explores the life, work, and persona of saxophonist Fred Ho, an unabashedly revolutionary artist whose illuminating and daring work redefines the relationship between art and politics. Scholars, artists, and friends give their unique takes on Ho's career, articulating his artistic contributions, their joint projects, and personal stories. Exploring his musical and theatrical work, his political theory and activism, and his personal life as it relates to politics, Yellow Power, Yellow Soul offers an intimate appreciation of Fred Ho's irrepressible and truly original creative spirit. Contributors are Roger N. Buckley, Peggy Myo-Young Choy, Jayne Cortez, Kevin Fellezs, Diane C. Fujino, Magdalena Gómez, Richard Hamasaki, Esther Iverem, Robert Kocik, Genny Lim, Ruth Margraff, Bill V. Mullen, Tamara Roberts, Arthur J. Sabatini, Kalamu ya Salaam, Miyoshi Smith, Arthur Song, and Salim Washington.
| Cover Title page Copyright Contents Introduction Part I: Revolution in Music 1. Enter the Voice of the Dragon 2. "Oh the Hilt, the Hilt Again Please" 3. Fred Ho's Operatic Journey Part II: The Aesthetics of Politics 4. "Return to the Source" 5. Red Dragon, Blue Warrior 6. In Fred Ho's Body of Work Part III: A Life in Community 7. Machete and Chopsticks 8. Somewhere between Ideology,Practice, and the Cellular War. . . the Dolphins Sing 9. "That's Why the WorkIs What It Is" 10. Go On, Shoot Afterword Appendixes Discography Production History Curriculum Vitae Contributors Index | "This powerful volume is an antiphonal response to Fred Ho's revolutionary music and politics. Ho's aesthetics are assertive, demanding, unequivocal, absolute, polemical, unrelenting, and beautiful, and his friends and colleagues have responded in kind. This collection carries forward Ho's message." —Deborah Wong, author of Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music
"[Yellow Power, Yellow Soul] provides great insight into Ho's formative years, his writing process with a variety of collaborators, and the evolution of his aesthetics and philosophies."—Journal of the Society for American Music
"Those genuinely interested in the transgressive and transcendent potential of performance and cultural production as well as the political power of transcultural solidarity would do well to engage Yellow Power Yellow Soul."—Journal of Asian American Studies
| Roger N. Buckley is a professor of history and the founding director of the Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. Tamara Roberts is an assistant professor of ethnomusicology and performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
| Cover Title page Copyright Contents Introduction Part I: Revolution in Music 1. Enter the Voice of the Dragon 2. "Oh the Hilt, the Hilt Again Please" 3. Fred Ho's Operatic Journey Part II: The Aesthetics of Politics 4. "Return to the Source" 5. Red Dragon, Blue Warrior 6. In Fred Ho's Body of Work Part III: A Life in Community 7. Machete and Chopsticks 8. Somewhere between Ideology,Practice, and the Cellular War. . . the Dolphins Sing 9. "That's Why the WorkIs What It Is" 10. Go On, Shoot Afterword Appendixes Discography Production History Curriculum Vitae Contributors Index | "This powerful volume is an antiphonal response to Fred Ho's revolutionary music and politics. Ho's aesthetics are assertive, demanding, unequivocal, absolute, polemical, unrelenting, and beautiful, and his friends and colleagues have responded in kind. This collection carries forward Ho's message." —Deborah Wong, author of Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music
"[Yellow Power, Yellow Soul] provides great insight into Ho's formative years, his writing process with a variety of collaborators, and the evolution of his aesthetics and philosophies."—Journal of the Society for American Music
"Those genuinely interested in the transgressive and transcendent potential of performance and cultural production as well as the political power of transcultural solidarity would do well to engage Yellow Power Yellow Soul."—Journal of Asian American Studies
| Roger N. Buckley is a professor of history and the founding director of the Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. Tamara Roberts is an assistant professor of ethnomusicology and performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
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