Oliver Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 281815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oliver Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oliver |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG O |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Long Beach |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2839-7153 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Knife to the Heart
Upon its release in 1982, Chan Is Missing became the first Asian American narrative feature to gain national distribution, crossover audiences, and critical acclaim. Forty years later, Oliver Wang discusses the film’s landmark achievement with its writer and director Wayne Wang, whose career was launched by the film’s success. Yet despite the film’s significance within a nascent Asian American filmography, Wang has not achieved the same level of …
Choosing to be the Hero, the Joker, the Villain: An Interview with Arthur Dong
Oliver Wang interviews documentary filmmaker Arthur Dong. Originally from San Francisco, Dong began his career as a student filmmaker in the 1970s before releasing the Oscar-nominated short film, Sewing Woman in 1982. Since then, his films have focused on the role of Chinese and Asian Americans in entertainment industries as well as on anti-LGBQ discrimination. In the interview, Wang and Dong discuss Dong's beginnings as a high school filmmaker, …
Blowin' Up: Rap Dreams in South Central
Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America
Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews in the San Francisco Bay Area
Chronicles the history of the San Francisco Bay Area Filipino American mobile DJ scene of the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. He shows how DJ crews helped unify the Bay Area's Filipino American community, gave its members social status and brotherhood, and drew huge crowds. --Publisher's description
FernandoOrejuela. Rap and Hip Hop Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 272 pp
Hear the Drum Machine Get Wicked: Drum Machine Getting Wicked
Bridging the Gap
The Journey of “Viva Tirado”: A Musical Conversation within Afro-Chicano Los Angeles: The Journey of “Viva Tirado”
Rapping and Repping Asian: Race, Authenticity, and the Asian American MC
Between the Notes: Finding Asian America in Popular Music
When asked to explain the premise behind the Broadway musical he helped create and direct-Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da FunkGeorge C. Wolfe wrote, I'm interested in how, if you actively unearth popular culture and look inside it, you can find all kinds of secrets and truths and rhythms of a time period, much more than you find in written history.' Wolfe's conjecture validates forms of expressive public culture2 that are repositories for narrat…
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Between the Notes: Finding Asian America in Popular Music
When asked to explain the premise behind the Broadway musical he helped create and direct-Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da FunkGeorge C. Wolfe wrote, I'm interested in how, if you actively unearth popular culture and look inside it, you can find all kinds of secrets and truths and rhythms of a time period, much more than you find in written history.' Wolfe's conjecture validates forms of expressive public culture2 that are repositories for narrat…
Rapping and Repping Asian: Race, Authenticity, and the Asian American MC
The Journey of “Viva Tirado”: A Musical Conversation within Afro-Chicano Los Angeles: The Journey of “Viva Tirado”
Bridging the Gap
Hear the Drum Machine Get Wicked: Drum Machine Getting Wicked
Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews in the San Francisco Bay Area
Chronicles the history of the San Francisco Bay Area Filipino American mobile DJ scene of the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. He shows how DJ crews helped unify the Bay Area's Filipino American community, gave its members social status and brotherhood, and drew huge crowds. --Publisher's description
FernandoOrejuela. Rap and Hip Hop Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 272 pp
Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America
Blowin' Up: Rap Dreams in South Central
Choosing to be the Hero, the Joker, the Villain: An Interview with Arthur Dong
Oliver Wang interviews documentary filmmaker Arthur Dong. Originally from San Francisco, Dong began his career as a student filmmaker in the 1970s before releasing the Oscar-nominated short film, Sewing Woman in 1982. Since then, his films have focused on the role of Chinese and Asian Americans in entertainment industries as well as on anti-LGBQ discrimination. In the interview, Wang and Dong discuss Dong's beginnings as a high school filmmaker, …
Knife to the Heart
Upon its release in 1982, Chan Is Missing became the first Asian American narrative feature to gain national distribution, crossover audiences, and critical acclaim. Forty years later, Oliver Wang discusses the film’s landmark achievement with its writer and director Wayne Wang, whose career was launched by the film’s success. Yet despite the film’s significance within a nascent Asian American filmography, Wang has not achieved the same level of …
Art (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (4 works) · Music History and Culture (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · History (3 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works)