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Storyteller, Songwriter “No hate can stop my dance … freedom,” Nobuko Miyamoto sings in the title song to her new album, “120,000 Stories.” The activist-songwriter was joined at the Democracy Center in Little Tokyo on Saturday in conversation and song by Quetzal Flores to celebrate the debut of her album and her new memoir, “ Not Yo’ Butterfly: My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution.” The virtual event was broadcast via Zoom.
Miyamoto and Flores performed some songs from “120,000 Stories.” The double album, recorded with Flores, speaks to issues of Asian American identity, racism and the Black Lives Matter movement. “120,000 Stories” also features music from Miyamoto’s “A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America,” first released in 1973, and a selection of Obon songs, written by Miyamoto, that have become popular at festivals throughout Southern California. ....
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Nobuko Miyamoto’s New Album: ‘120,000 Stories’ Posted On Singer, artist, and activist Nobuko Miyamoto has announced her newest album, “120,000 Stories,” on Smithsonian Folkways. Her first album was 1973’s seminal “A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America,” released by Barbara Dane’s Paredon label, which was the first album of its kind detailing the experiences of Asian Americans in the 20 th century. “120,000 Stories” continues that legacy; its title evokes the approximate number of people of Japanese ancestry who were incarcerated in camps run by the U.S. government during World War II. It collects new music, recorded with Grammy-winner Quetzal Flores in Los Angeles, that speaks to issues such as Asian American stereotypes and the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as music from “A Grain of Sand,” recordings of her late-1970s group Warriors of the Rainbow, and performances from various stage productions thr ....
JANM Digital Film Festival: ‘Crossroads: Boyle Heights’ Q&A Posted On As part of its Digital Film Festival, the Japanese American National Museum will present a Q&A on “Crossroads: Boyle Heights” on Friday, Dec. 18, from 5 to 6 p.m. PST. A neighborhood is made up of people and places. It is defined through the experiences of those who consider it home. And it holds their hopes for the future and their memories of the past. In 2002, the exhibition “Boyle Heights: The Power of Place” celebrated these experiences and memories of Boyle Heights, a vibrant, multiethnic, and multicultural Los Angeles neighborhood. ....