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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/red-book-and-video-games-yello
 w-magic-orchestra-and-afro-asian-futurism/
SUMMARY:Red Book and Video Games: Yellow Magic Orchestra and Afro-Asian Fut
 urism
DESCRIPTION:Talk will be held over Zoom \n\nRegistration required: https:/
 /harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cIpLLGvNNoHo4Kh\n\nCo-sponsored wit
 h the Asia Center and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\n\nAfri
 ka Bambaataa once stated that Yellow Magic Orchestra invented hip hop. Alt
 hough his assertion is regarded as an overstatement\, the music of the Jap
 anese synth-pop group—founded in 1978 with its members Hosono Haruomi\, 
 Sakamoto Ryuichi and Takahashi Yukihiro—was indeed sampled by numerous h
 ip hop musicians from Bambaataa himself to De La Soul. YMO was also known 
 for its incorporation of Chinese images\; the members were inspired by the
  performance of Beijing Central Orchestra and their stage costumes were ca
 lled “Red Mao suit” by the fans. This presentation examines the futuri
 stic imagination and cultural negotiations of African Americans and Asians
  through the works of YMO. Transpacific dialogue on techno-orientalism and
  Afrofuturism will be explored in historical and political context\, with 
 reference to subcultures such as video game music—it was Hosono who firs
 t compiled and released an album of the genre—which would become an indi
 spensable component of African American music.
CATEGORIES:Visiting Scholar Talks
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