YELLOW POWER, YELLOW SOUL
University of Illinois Press (2013)
Edited by Roger N. Buckley (UConn)
and Tamara Roberts (UC Berkeley)
PUBLIC BOOK LAUNCH
Special Guest of Honor FRED HO
UCONN Student Union Room 428
“The Radical Art of Fred Ho / Redefining the Nexus between Politics and Art”
On Tuesday, APRIL 23 at 4:00 pm at the University of Connecticut – Storrs Campus / 2110 Hillside Road / Student Union Building Room 428, Fred Ho will be the Special Guest of Honor for the Asian American Studies Institute’s launch of a new book YELLOW POWER, YELLOW SOUL just published by Univ. of Illinois Press. It is edited by UCONN History Prof. and founding director of the Institute, Roger N. Buckley, and UC Berkeley Asst. Prof. of Ethnomusicology and Performance Studies, Tamara Roberts. This event is open to the public.
Saxophonist FRED HO is a formidable voice in the history of West Coast Asian American jazz, the East Coast avant-garde, and numerous anti-oppression movements. Offering up music that is illuminating and daring, informative and meticulous, scholarly and ambitious, brashly confident and vigorous, extravagant and emotionally sweeping, Ho is an unabashed revolutionary artist who has spent his life redefining the timeless relationship between politics and art.
CONTACT: Asian American Studies / Ms. Fe (fay) Delos-Santos by email at fe.delos-santos@uconn.edu or phone at (860) 486-5083. More information at www.AsianAmerican.UConn.edu.
For more information, contact: Ms. Fe Delos-Santos at fe.delos-santos@uconn.edu