In the ’60s and ’70s, the Black Panthers, boogaloo dancers and Sly Stone anticipated the arrival of hip-hop.
Bay Area Hip-Hop | That’s My Word | KQED
A Year-Long Exploration of Bay Area Hip-Hop History
How Bay Area Hip-Hop Found Its Sound in the 1980s
Casio keyboards, homemade tapes and the boundless creativity of Bay Area youth flourished in the 1980s hip-hop scene.
The Ascendance of Bay Area Dance Music
The contemporary sound of Bay Area dance music is high-energy, omnivorous, and life-affirming.
Dance to the Music (Sly and the Family Stone album)
Dance to the Music is the second studio album by American funk-soul band Sly and the Family Stone, released in April 1968 on Epic and CBS Records. It contains the Top Ten hit single of the same name, which was influential in the formation and popularization of the musical subgenre of psychedelic soul and helped lay the groundwork for the development of funk music.
Hometown Chinatown: A History of Oakland's Chinese Community, 1852-1995
Focusing on the local history of the Chinese in Oakland, California, this study examines common stereotypes in the early Chinese community and Chinatown organizations.
The Second Gold Rush — Oakland Public Library
The Second Gold Rush — Johnson, Marilynn S. — More than any event in the twentieth century World War II marked the coming of age of America's West Coast cities. Almost overnight, new war industries prompted mass urban migration and development, producing social, cultural, and political changes that would persist well beyond 1945. For the San Francisco Bay Area, Marilynn S. Johnson argues, World War II was to the twentieth century what the gold rush was to the nineteenth.<br />Focusing on Oakland, Richmond, and other shipyard boomtowns in the East Bay, The Second Gold Rush chronicles the defense buildup, labor migration from the South and Midwest, the development of federal migrant communities, and the social and racial conflicts that pitted newcomers against longtime Bay Area residents. Johnson follows this story into the postwar era, showing how struggles between conservative and liberal forces over employment, housing, and civil rights shaped the urban political landscape into the 1950s and beyond. Tracing the cultural legacy of war migration, she also explains how Southern religion and music became an integral part of Bay Area life.<br />Urban historians have paid surprisingly little attention to World War II and the social and cultural transformation of wartime cities. In The Second Gold Rush, Johnson places the human drama of the war at center stage, recreating the texture of daily life in the workplace, the home, and the community.<br/>"At last, a close-in account of California during its moment of rebirth, World War II. . . . A book that helps us to understand California's past and also its present."--James N. Gregory, author of <i>American Exodus</i><br/>More than any event in the twentieth century, World War II marked the coming of age of America's West Coast cities. Almost overnight, new war industries prompted the mass urban migration and development that would trigger lasting social, cultural, and political changes. For the San Francisco Bay Area, argues Marilynn Johnson, the changes brought by World War II were as dramatic as those brought by the gold rush a century earlier.<br /><br />Focusing on Oakland, Richmond, and other East Bay shipyard boomtowns, Johnson chronicles the defense buildup, labor migration from the South and Midwest, housing issues, and social and racial conflicts that pitted newcomers against longtime Bay Area residents. She follows this story into the postwar era, when struggles over employment, housing, and civil rights shaped the urban political landscape for the 1950s and beyond. She also traces the cultural legacy of war migration and shows how Southern religion and music became an integral part of Bay Area culture.<br /><br />Johnson's sources are wide-ranging and include shipyard records, labor histories, police reports, and interviews. Her findings place the war's human drama at center stage and effectively recreate the texture of daily life in workplace, home, and community. Enriched by the photographs of Dorothea Lange and others, <i>The Second Gold Rush</i> makes an important contribution to twentieth-century urban studies as well as to California history.
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Examines taverns and clubs in Oakland, California where a distincitive style of blues music unique to Oakland was developed and performed. Includes interviews with blues musicians in the Oakland area and segments from the San Francisco Blues Festival.
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'Mau Mau Tech': The Making of a Black University in Oakland, California, 1960-1970 : Indybay
Mau Mau Tech' looks at efforts to form a Black University in Oakland, California in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Party Music by Rickey Vincent | East Bay Booksellers
Connecting the black music tradition with the black activist tradition, Party Music brings both into greater focus than ever before and reveals just how strongly the black power movement was felt on the streets of black America.
J Dilla's Influence And Legacy Lives On In The World Of Lo-Fi Hip-Hop
J Dilla's music has been adopted by the lo-fi hip-hop community; now fans of the subgenre consider him the godfather of lo-fi hip-hop.
How a K-pop concert in Malaysia led to a war of words between Southeast Asian and Korean netizens
There's currently a huge online battle between Southeast Asian users and South Korean netizens, with racial comments coming from both camps. And it all started from a K-pop concert in Malaysia.
Cartoons & Cereal: How Adult Swim Has Held It Down For Hip-Hop On TV
The after-dark animation entity has done more than its fair share for hip-hop culture for over a decade.
The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area by Malcolm Margolin
Two hundred years ago, herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco–Monterey Bay area. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to
Bad Bunny’s key symbols to watch for in his Super Bowl halftime show
The Puerto Rican singer will surprise audiences with a performance that will be a landmark moment for Latino culture
