Josh Kun
Biographic Data
| ID | 162535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josh Kun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josh |
| FAMILY NAME | Kun |
| SIGNATURE | KUN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The fire this time: A conversation with Angela Y. Davis, Herman Gray, Gaye Theresa Johnson, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Josh Kun
B Jenkins
The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet's mother, who passed away in 2000. It is both an elegy and an inquiry into many of the themes that Moten has explored throughout his career: language, music, performance, improvisation, and the black radical aesthetic and political tradition. In Moten's verse, the arts, scholarship, and activism intertwine. Cadences echo from his mo…
Tide Was Always High: The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles
In 1980, the celebrated new wave band Blondie headed to Los Angeles to record a new album and along with it, the cover song “The Tide Is High,” originally written by Jamaican legend John Holt. Featuring percussion by Peruvian drummer and veteran LA session musician “Alex” Acuña, and with horns and violins that were pure LA mariachi by way of Mexico, “The Tide Is High” demonstrates just one of the ways in which Los Angeles and the music of Latin A…
Music and Memory: The Tlatelolco Refrain
Ever since the 1968 student movements and the events surrounding the Tlatelolco massacre, Mexico City rock bands have openly engaged with the intersection of music and memory. Their songs offer audiences a medium through which to come to terms with the events of the past as a means of praising a broken world, to borrow the poet Adam Zagajewski’s phrase. Contemporary songs such as Saúl Hernández’s “Fuerte” are a twenty-first-century voicing of the…
Alláin the Mix: MexicanSoniderosand the Musical Politics of Migrancy
This essay focuses on the contemporary migrant musical practices of mobile Mexican DJ sound systems, or sonidos. Operating on both sides of the US-Mexico border, sonidos use the DJ mix as a form of musical communication and community that both moves between the United States and Mexico and plays a role in shaping cross-border migrant politics and activism through what the essay explores as the "aesthetics of allá
Black and Brown in Los Angeles: Beyond Conflict and Coalition
List of Illustrations List of Tables Introduction Josh Kun and Laura Pulido PART ONE. THE ECONOMICS OF PEOPLE AND PLACES 1. Keeping It Real: Demographic Change, Economic Conflict, and Interethnic Organizing for Social Justice in Los Angeles Manuel Pastor 2. Banking on the Community: Mexican Immigrants' Experiences in a Historically African American Bank in South Central Los Angeles, 1970--2007 Abigail Rosas 3. Black Views toward Proposed Undocume…
Tijuana Dreaming: Life and Art at the Global Border
Tijuana Dreaming is an unprecedented introduction to the arts, culture, politics, and economics of contemporary Tijuana, Mexico. With many pieces translated from Spanish for the first time, the anthology features contributions by prominent scholars, journalists, bloggers, novelists, poets, curators, and photographers from Tijuana and greater Mexico. They explore urban planning in light of Tijuana's unique infrastructural, demographic, and environ…
Buena Vista in the Club: Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana
Introduction: Listening to American Studies
Introduction: Listening to American Studies Kara Keeling (bio) and Josh Kun (bio) Why is it so difficult for so many people to listen? Why do they start talking when there's something to hear? -John Cage in the documentary Sound I remember everything I've ever heard. Every dropped nickel, raindrop drip-drop, sneaker squeak, and sheep bleat. Every jump rope chant, Miss Mary Mack Mack hand clap, and eenie meanie chili beanie oop bop-bop bellini met…
Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness
Reggaeton
Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies
Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968
Chávez Ravine: A Record by Ry Cooder
Book Review| December 01 2006 Chávez Ravine: A Record by Ry Cooder Chávez Ravine: A Record by Ry Cooder, Ry Cooder. Josh Kun Josh Kun Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2006) 24 (4): 512–514. https://doi.org/10.2307/25046053 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Josh Kun; Chávez Ravine: A Record by Ry Cooder. American Music 1 December 2006; 24 (4): …
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Review| April 01 2004 File under: Post-Mexico Josh Kun Josh Kun Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (2004) 29 (1): 271–277. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.2004.29.1.271 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Josh Kun; File under: Post-…
What Is an MC If He Can't Rap to Banda? Making Music in Nuevo L.A
This essay focuses on one song-Akwid's "No Hay Manera"-and what it tells us about the changing racial and cultural profiles of contemporary Los Angeles. In examining the "congealed history" of this hip hop-meets-banda composition from two immigrant brothers from Michoacan, I highlight the following main issues: the ongoing Mexicanization of Southeast and South Central Los Angeles in the context of economic globalization and de-industrialization, …
A Forum on Theatre and Tragedy: A Response to September 11, 2001
In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, I invited a number of theatre and performance scholars to respond to the concept of tragedy in the context of these world-changing events. The following forum showcases the generosity of a wide range of scholars who signed on to this project with enthusiasm and conviction. More than ever, I believe that our intellectual labor can make a difference. The forum demonstrates much more than the vitality of…
The Sacrifice of Daniel, on The Believer
The Cowboy and the Dandy: Crossing Over from Romanticism to Rock and Roll
Book Review| September 01 2001 The Cowboy and the Dandy: Crossing Over from Romanticism to Rock and Roll By Perry Meisel. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. ix, 156 pp.$24.95. Josh Kun Josh Kun Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 670–671. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-670 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Josh Kun; Th…
The Aural Border
Three years ago, I was standing on the beach in Tijuana in front of the rusting border wall that runs across the sand into the sea. The wall was made from corrugated metal recycled from a Persian Gulf landing strip, and through the gaps in its beams I could see an Immigration Naturalization Service truck parked and ready-to-chase in the shadow of a brush-covered hill. By my side was Alex Zuñiga, the drummer for Tijuana NO, a local tijuanero punk …
Multiculturalism without People of Color
Interview| October 01 1999 Multiculturalism without People of Color: An Interview with Guillermo Gómez-Peña Josh Kun Josh Kun Josh Kun, assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a fellow of the Five College Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas, focuses on popular music and American popular cultures. His music column, “Frequencies,” appears biweekly in the San Francisco Bay Guardi…
The Aural Border
Three years ago, I was standing on the beach in Tijuana in front of the rusting border wall that runs across the sand into the sea. The wall was made from corrugated metal recycled from a Persian Gulf landing strip, and through the gaps in its beams I could see an Immigration Naturalization Service truck parked and ready-to-chase in the shadow of a brush-covered hill. By my side was Alex Zuñiga, the drummer for Tijuana NO, a local tijuanero punk …
Introduction: Listening to American Studies
Introduction: Listening to American Studies Kara Keeling (bio) and Josh Kun (bio) Why is it so difficult for so many people to listen? Why do they start talking when there's something to hear? -John Cage in the documentary Sound I remember everything I've ever heard. Every dropped nickel, raindrop drip-drop, sneaker squeak, and sheep bleat. Every jump rope chant, Miss Mary Mack Mack hand clap, and eenie meanie chili beanie oop bop-bop bellini met…
Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968
What Is an MC If He Can't Rap to Banda? Making Music in Nuevo L.A
This essay focuses on one song-Akwid's "No Hay Manera"-and what it tells us about the changing racial and cultural profiles of contemporary Los Angeles. In examining the "congealed history" of this hip hop-meets-banda composition from two immigrant brothers from Michoacan, I highlight the following main issues: the ongoing Mexicanization of Southeast and South Central Los Angeles in the context of economic globalization and de-industrialization, …
Alláin the Mix: MexicanSoniderosand the Musical Politics of Migrancy
This essay focuses on the contemporary migrant musical practices of mobile Mexican DJ sound systems, or sonidos. Operating on both sides of the US-Mexico border, sonidos use the DJ mix as a form of musical communication and community that both moves between the United States and Mexico and plays a role in shaping cross-border migrant politics and activism through what the essay explores as the "aesthetics of allá
A Forum on Theatre and Tragedy: A Response to September 11, 2001
In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, I invited a number of theatre and performance scholars to respond to the concept of tragedy in the context of these world-changing events. The following forum showcases the generosity of a wide range of scholars who signed on to this project with enthusiasm and conviction. More than ever, I believe that our intellectual labor can make a difference. The forum demonstrates much more than the vitality of…
Multiculturalism without People of Color
Interview| October 01 1999 Multiculturalism without People of Color: An Interview with Guillermo Gómez-Peña Josh Kun Josh Kun Josh Kun, assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a fellow of the Five College Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas, focuses on popular music and American popular cultures. His music column, “Frequencies,” appears biweekly in the San Francisco Bay Guardi…
The Aural Border
Three years ago, I was standing on the beach in Tijuana in front of the rusting border wall that runs across the sand into the sea. The wall was made from corrugated metal recycled from a Persian Gulf landing strip, and through the gaps in its beams I could see an Immigration Naturalization Service truck parked and ready-to-chase in the shadow of a brush-covered hill. By my side was Alex Zuñiga, the drummer for Tijuana NO, a local tijuanero punk …
The Cowboy and the Dandy: Crossing Over from Romanticism to Rock and Roll
Book Review| September 01 2001 The Cowboy and the Dandy: Crossing Over from Romanticism to Rock and Roll By Perry Meisel. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. ix, 156 pp.$24.95. Josh Kun Josh Kun Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 670–671. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-670 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Josh Kun; Th…
A Forum on Theatre and Tragedy: A Response to September 11, 2001
In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, I invited a number of theatre and performance scholars to respond to the concept of tragedy in the context of these world-changing events. The following forum showcases the generosity of a wide range of scholars who signed on to this project with enthusiasm and conviction. More than ever, I believe that our intellectual labor can make a difference. The forum demonstrates much more than the vitality of…
The Sacrifice of Daniel, on The Believer
File under
Review| April 01 2004 File under: Post-Mexico Josh Kun Josh Kun Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (2004) 29 (1): 271–277. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.2004.29.1.271 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Josh Kun; File under: Post-…
What Is an MC If He Can't Rap to Banda? Making Music in Nuevo L.A
This essay focuses on one song-Akwid's "No Hay Manera"-and what it tells us about the changing racial and cultural profiles of contemporary Los Angeles. In examining the "congealed history" of this hip hop-meets-banda composition from two immigrant brothers from Michoacan, I highlight the following main issues: the ongoing Mexicanization of Southeast and South Central Los Angeles in the context of economic globalization and de-industrialization, …
Chávez Ravine: A Record by Ry Cooder
Book Review| December 01 2006 Chávez Ravine: A Record by Ry Cooder Chávez Ravine: A Record by Ry Cooder, Ry Cooder. Josh Kun Josh Kun Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2006) 24 (4): 512–514. https://doi.org/10.2307/25046053 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Josh Kun; Chávez Ravine: A Record by Ry Cooder. American Music 1 December 2006; 24 (4): …
Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies
Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968
Reggaeton
Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness
Buena Vista in the Club: Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana
Introduction: Listening to American Studies
Introduction: Listening to American Studies Kara Keeling (bio) and Josh Kun (bio) Why is it so difficult for so many people to listen? Why do they start talking when there's something to hear? -John Cage in the documentary Sound I remember everything I've ever heard. Every dropped nickel, raindrop drip-drop, sneaker squeak, and sheep bleat. Every jump rope chant, Miss Mary Mack Mack hand clap, and eenie meanie chili beanie oop bop-bop bellini met…
Tijuana Dreaming: Life and Art at the Global Border
Tijuana Dreaming is an unprecedented introduction to the arts, culture, politics, and economics of contemporary Tijuana, Mexico. With many pieces translated from Spanish for the first time, the anthology features contributions by prominent scholars, journalists, bloggers, novelists, poets, curators, and photographers from Tijuana and greater Mexico. They explore urban planning in light of Tijuana's unique infrastructural, demographic, and environ…
Black and Brown in Los Angeles: Beyond Conflict and Coalition
List of Illustrations List of Tables Introduction Josh Kun and Laura Pulido PART ONE. THE ECONOMICS OF PEOPLE AND PLACES 1. Keeping It Real: Demographic Change, Economic Conflict, and Interethnic Organizing for Social Justice in Los Angeles Manuel Pastor 2. Banking on the Community: Mexican Immigrants' Experiences in a Historically African American Bank in South Central Los Angeles, 1970--2007 Abigail Rosas 3. Black Views toward Proposed Undocume…
Music and Memory: The Tlatelolco Refrain
Ever since the 1968 student movements and the events surrounding the Tlatelolco massacre, Mexico City rock bands have openly engaged with the intersection of music and memory. Their songs offer audiences a medium through which to come to terms with the events of the past as a means of praising a broken world, to borrow the poet Adam Zagajewski’s phrase. Contemporary songs such as Saúl Hernández’s “Fuerte” are a twenty-first-century voicing of the…
Alláin the Mix: MexicanSoniderosand the Musical Politics of Migrancy
This essay focuses on the contemporary migrant musical practices of mobile Mexican DJ sound systems, or sonidos. Operating on both sides of the US-Mexico border, sonidos use the DJ mix as a form of musical communication and community that both moves between the United States and Mexico and plays a role in shaping cross-border migrant politics and activism through what the essay explores as the "aesthetics of allá
Tide Was Always High: The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles
In 1980, the celebrated new wave band Blondie headed to Los Angeles to record a new album and along with it, the cover song “The Tide Is High,” originally written by Jamaican legend John Holt. Featuring percussion by Peruvian drummer and veteran LA session musician “Alex” Acuña, and with horns and violins that were pure LA mariachi by way of Mexico, “The Tide Is High” demonstrates just one of the ways in which Los Angeles and the music of Latin A…
B Jenkins
The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet's mother, who passed away in 2000. It is both an elegy and an inquiry into many of the themes that Moten has explored throughout his career: language, music, performance, improvisation, and the black radical aesthetic and political tradition. In Moten's verse, the arts, scholarship, and activism intertwine. Cadences echo from his mo…
The fire this time: A conversation with Angela Y. Davis, Herman Gray, Gaye Theresa Johnson, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Josh Kun
Art (13 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (13 works) · History (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Visual arts (7 works) · Art history (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Law (6 works)