AS AM 118 Lecture Notes - Model Minority, Katy Perry, Internment
9 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Steve Aoki
Important for Steve's dad to assimilate
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Found his identity when he realized he is different from his middle-class, white,
conservation community in Newport Beach
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Lack of Asian stereotypes (e.g. Tiger parents) in his family dynamic allows him
the agency to find his identity without worrying not living up to the societal
pressure
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Awkwafina
Authenticity for different people/ community
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Authentic pop music
Accuracy, legitimacy, purity, realness, original
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History and reason for the music creation
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The socioeconomic
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Referring to a stereotype
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Authenticity changes as the subject changes
Continue to question the dominant narrative of what is authentic
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Kpop
Korean's oppression history is similar to African American's oppression history
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Still show the R&B and hip-hop root
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Psy- New Face
New face to the music industry
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Included horn that is popular in jazz music
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Katy Perry- unconditionally
Playing the geisha
Geisha stereotype: submissive, obedient
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Music: love you unconditionally
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Racialized dance movements, setting, makeup
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Reduce rich geisha culture to a performance
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Viewers in Japan may be okay with her performance because they don't
understand the deep racialized Japanese/ Asian American history in America
(ex. Internment camp)
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Big Mama- break away
Midterm Review
Major themes in class
History
Community building
Transnationalism
Cultural preservation
Cultural Hegemony
Pan-ethnicity
Who gets to tell the story
Otherness and objection
Model minority myth
Privilege
Key terms (choose 5 out of 10)
Definition
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2 essay questions (choose out of 4)
Bring in concepts from key term list
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Lecture 8
Thursday, May 3, 2018
3:32 PM
