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Air Guitar, Hip-Hop

Melissa Hung - August 8, 2006

Why? Maybe because no one expects us to.

According to Park, that's one of the keys to the Asian domination of Air Guitar Nation: "No one expects us to be able to rock out, so we have the element of surprise on our side."

I love that in the profiles, Yang goes into their backgrounds, finding out that C.Diddy, like many Asian kids, had been pushed to study music. Of course. Hell yeah. Messing with stereotypes, one head-banging, gyrating, invisible-instrument performance at a time.

  • Asia Pacific Arts has an interview with Jeff Chang [1], author of Can't Stop Won't Stop, a cultural history of the hip-hop generation, which we also featured in issue 5.

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    [1] http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=47412