Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader
By (Author) Fred Ho
Edited by Diane C. Fujino
Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley
Afterword by Bill V. Mullen
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
27th May 2009
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
The arts: general topics
306
Physical Properties
Paperback
384
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 28mm
Description
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.
Hos passions for art and justice have always been linkedhis music seeks to express his politics and his activism has injected revolution into his art. Wicked Theory, Naked Practice is a groundbreaking collection of Hos 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, Hos 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.
Author Bio
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.
