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Wicked Theory, Naked Practice A Fred Ho Reader Fred Ho Edited by Diane C. Fujino Foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley Afterword by Bill V. Mullen Table of Contents PRESS: The Chronicle Herald article NewMusicBox interview Point of Departure excerpt		$24.95 paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5685-1 $75.00 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5684-4
A leading Asian American artist and activist on the explosive intersection of politics and music For more than three decades, Fred Ho has been a radical artist and activist. As a composer and baritone saxophonist, he is famed for creating a new music that fuses Asian and African traditions. The influence of the Black Power and Black Arts movements during his coming of age inspired him to become one of the leading radical Asian American activist–artists. Ho’s passions for art and justice have always been linked—his music seeks to express his politics, and his activism has injected revolution into his art. Wicked Theory, Naked Practice is a groundbreaking collection of Ho’s writings, speeches, and interviews of the past three decades on topics ranging from Mao to Coltrane, from Sun Ra to selling out, and from fighting oppression to battling cancer. His work insists on connections among creative and artistic processes, political theorization, and activist organizing. As Robin D. G. Kelley says in the Foreword, “Ho writes, speaks, and plays in order to persuade and inspire, to expose the crimes of the ruling class, and to challenge the status quo so that we imagine a different future.” Through Wicked Theory, Naked Practice, Ho’s contributions merge political and cultural theory, shedding new light on the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s and revealing the fascinating story behind a prolific and politically engaged artist across all genres. “There are terrific things here, useful and valid to anyone who cares about creative music.” —Jazz Journal Fred Ho is a composer, musician, scholar, and activist. He is the leader of the Afro Asian Music Ensemble and Monkey Orchestra. His many recordings include The Black Panther Suite. He is coeditor of Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans, Sounding Off! Music as Subversion/Resistance/Revolution, and Legacy to Liberation: Politics and Culture of Revolutionary Asian Pacific America. He was the first Asian American to receive the Duke Ellington Distinguished Artist Lifetime Achievement Award. Diane C. Fujino is chair and associate professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Robin D. G. Kelley is professor of American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Bill V. Mullen is professor of English and director of American studies at Purdue University. 384 pages | 12 b&w photos | 6 x 9 | 2009 Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword: Tomorrow Is Now! Robin D. G. Kelley Introduction: Fred Ho’s Revolutionary Dreaming  Diane C. Fujino I. The Movement and the Self From Banana to Third World Marxist Beyond Asian American Jazz: My Musical and Political Changes in the Asian American Movement Interview with Chris Mitchell II. Music, Aesthetics, and Cultural Production What Makes “Jazz” the Revolutionary Music of the Twentieth Century, and Will It Be Revolutionary for the Twenty-first Century? Musical Borrowings, Exchanges, and Fusions: New/Experimental Genres Kreolization and the Hybridity of Resistance vs. Cultural Imperialism Highlights in the History of “Jazz” Not Covered by Ken Burns: A Request from Ishmael Reed The Damned Don’t Cry: The Life and Music of Calvin Massey How to Sell But Not Sell Out: Personal Lessons from Making a Career as a Subversive and Radical Performing Artist Big Red Media, Inc., a Composer/Musician–Driven Production Company: Doing It Yourself III. Asian Pacific American Cultural Theory and Criticism An Asian American Tribute to the Black Arts Movement Asian American Music and Empowerment: Is There Such a Thing as “Asian American Jazz”? Interview with Amy Ling A Voice Is a Voice, But What Is It Saying? (with Arthur Song) Where Is the Asian American Love? Bamboo That Snaps Back! Resistance and Revolution in Asian Pacific American Working Class and Left-Wing Expressive Culture Tomoe Tana: Keeping Alive Japanese American Tanka Hole Hole Bushi: Cultural/Musical Resistance by Japanese Women Plantation Workers in Early Twentieth-Century Hawaii (with Susan Asai) IV. Wicked Theory, Naked Practice The Inspiration of Mao and the Chinese Revolution on the Black Liberation Movement and the Asian Movement on the East Coast Notes on the National Question: Oppressed Nations and Liberation Struggles within the U.S.A. Matriarchy: The First and Final Communism Momentum for Change Flags, Falsehoods, and Facism: As Long As Imperialism Exists, Chickens Will Come Home to Roost! Afterword. Report from the Front Lines: A Dialectics of the Future Bill V. Mullen Publication History Index

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