Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews in the San Francisco Bay Area

by Oliver Wang

Book Overview

Armed with speakers, turntables, light systems, and records, Filipino American mobile DJ crews, such as Ultimate Creations, Spintronix, and Images, Inc., rocked dance floors throughout the San Francisco Bay Area from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. In Legions of Boom noted music and pop culture writer and scholar Oliver Wang chronicles this remarkable scene that eventually became the cradle for turntablism. These crews, which were instrumental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822358905
• ISBN13: 9780822358909
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 8.8"