Steinbeck's Chinatown
"Steinbeck's Chinatown" is a sound sculpture I did in connection with the "Salinas Chinatown" Exhibition at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, California from April to July 4, 2010.  Below are many of the books and records I used in researching and composing the piece.  Because the composition uses copyrighted material it can only be played at the Steinbeck Center in connection with the Exhibition.

The 2010 Exhibition focused on the Chinese community.  The 2011 Exhibition will focus on the Japanese community.  Future Exhibitions will focus on the Filipino and Mexican communities.

Below are the CD's and books I used in research and composition.  I will add more as I continue to obtain resources for the upcoming exhibitions.
The Filipino American Exhibition is slated for April 2012.  Work has now begun on collecting candidate music and text for the composition and accompanying booklet.  I am also collecting data for a summary publication to be drafted after the Filipino Exhibition.


Aisle 1
American Music
  • Swing
  • Blues
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Swing and Blues


In my discussions with Chinese, Japanese and Filipino residents of Chinatown swing music was usually the first thing mentioned.

Swing

Glenn Miller Greatest Hits
Very Best of Benny Goodman
Masterpieces by Ellington
First Time: Count Meets the Duke; Count Basie, Duke Ellington
Tommy Dorsey - Greatest Hits (RCA)
Drum Boogie; Gene Krupa
The Great Summit; Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
Count Basie's Finest Hour
Basie at Birdland
Blues
Chicago Blues: A Living History; Lurrie Bell
The Aristocrat of the Blues; Various Artists
Mississippi Blues; Various Artists
Legends; Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin

Trace Adkins Greatest Hits Volume II: American Man; Trace Adkins; 2007

 

Kenny Chesney Greatest Hits II; Kenney Chesney; 2010


Kenny Chesney; Lucky Old Sun; 2008


I’m in the Mood for Love, Classic Ballads; Brenda Lee, 1998


The Other Brother; Herb Miller Orchestra; 1992


DrumLine; Soundtrack Album; 2002


The Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band V-Disc Sessions, vol. 2; Glenn Miller; 1995


Louisiana; Governor Jimmie Davis; (for "You Are My Sunshine")


You Are My Sunshine; Cyrus Chestnut; 2003


La Bamba; Los Lobos (Richie Valenz performend by Lou Diamond Phillips - born in Phillipines; 1999




Aisle 2
Chinese Music
Cowboy Music
Mexican Music
Books used in research for the composition
Chinese Traditional, Folk, Classical, Lullabies and Children's Music
Chinese Lullabies; Beijing Angelic Choir
The Imperial Bells of China; Hubei Song & Dance Ensemble
Masterpieces of Chinese Traditional Music; Chinese Instrumental Ensemble
Jasmine Flower; Beijing Angelic Choir
Classical Chinese Folk Music
Spring River, Moon Night; Various Artists
Tan Dun: Symphony 1997 (Heaven, Earth, Mankind); Dun Tan (Composer), Imperial bells Ensemble, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
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Cowboy Music

KSBW (Salad Bowl of the World) played cowboy music in the morning and swing at night
Essential Gene Autry
King of the Cowboys; Roy Rogers
Greatest Cowboy Songs Ever; Various Artists
Mexican Music
The Marvelous Mariachis of Mexico; The Marvelous Mariachis

Lullabies of Latin America; Canciones de Cunla de Latinoamerica: A Restful Little Heaven for You and Your Child; Maria Del Rey; 1999

 

Arrulos: Lullabies In Spanish; Jose-Luis Orozco;


American Horizon; Los Cenzontles, David Hidalgo, Taj Mahal
Mexico; Various Artists
Mexico and Mariachis; Various Artists
Selected Books used in research for "Steinbeck's Chinatown"

America and Americans; John Steinbeck; 1966:


"We are a very strange people; we love organizations, and hate them.  I remember something that happened in Salinas at a time when the Hearst papers were whipping up anger against the japanese, and when, in our schools - I guess I was about  twelve or thirteen years old - at least thirty percent of the pupils were Japanese.  Some of them were my good friends, but, stimulated by the ferocity of the Hearst campaign, we formed a little club for espionage against the Japanese.  We had secret signs and secret messages places and codes.  We prowled about Japanese gardners' farms, peered in their windows, and found that they went to bed very early - and got up very early, too.  But we were content to snoop, and we were happy.  Then a terrible thing happened.  Takasi Yatkumi, who was one of our dearest friends, asked to join.  We were horrified; it tore the whole structure of racial dislike down to the roots.  We explained to Takasi that his action was not cricket; that he was the enemy; that he couldn't join an anti-Japanese organization. He thought about it  a while and said that if we would let him in he would help us to spy on his mother and father.  And because he was our friend we had to take him in, but it ruined the fine, ferocious quality of our organization, just as the Catholic lodges in a way broke down the ferocity of the Protestant groups." (pages 87-88)

John Steinbeck Working Days; The Journals of the Grapes of Wrath; Edited by Robert Demott; 1990

 

John Steinbeck; Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters; 1990

 

Steinbeck: A Life in Letters; Edited by Elaine Steinbeck and Robert Wallsten; 1975

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Up and Down California in 1860 – 1864; The Journal of William Brewer; 2003


V-Discs, First Supplement; Richard Sears; 1986



Autumn Loneliness: The Letters of Kiyoshi & Kiyoko Tokutomi by Tei Matsushita and Patricia J. Machmiller.


Cold War Orientalism:  Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945 – 1961; Christina Klein; U of California Press; 2003



Chinese American Voices; Judy Yung, Gordon Chang, Lai Him Mark
Celestial Drama in the Golden Hills; The Chinese Theatre in California 1849-1869; by Rodescape, L; Published by the California Historical Society, Vol. 23 Issue 2; 1944. The link is to the California Historical Society.

New York Before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture; John Kuo Wei Tchen; 1999

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The Way of Taiko; Heidi Varian; Stone Bridge Press

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Lost & Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration; Karen L. Ishikuza; 2006

 

Camp Days 1942- 1945; Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz; 2004

 

Japanese Children’s Day and the Obon Festival; Diane M. MacMillan; 1997

 

Poston: Camp 11, Block 211; Jack Matsuoka; 2003

Reverend Yoshio Iwanaga and the Early History of Doyo Buyo and Bon Odori in California;  A thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in Dance; by Linda Cummings Akiyama; made available by the Japanese American Museum of San Jose; 1989



Traditional Japanese Music and Musical Instruments
by William P. Malm (from the Asian Art museum in San Francisco)

The Last Sunrise; Harold Gordon; 1993

 

The Miracle Visas; Yutaka Taniuchi; 2001

 

In Search of Sugihara; Hillel Levin; 1996

 

Passage to Freedom; Ken Mochizuki, Afterword by Hiroki Sugihara; 1997



Japan Envisions the West: 16th-19th Century Japanese Art from Kobe City Museum
Yukiko Shirahara (Editor)
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One Nation; Wallace Stegner and the Editors of Look; 1945

Filipinos in Stockton; Dawn B. Mabalon Ph.D., Rico Reyes, Little Manila Foundation

Friars and Filipinos; An Abridged Transalation of Dr. Jose Rizal’s Tagalog Novel, “Noli Me Tangere”; Jose Rizal, translated by Frank Ernest Gannett; 1900 reprinted 2010

 

America is in the Heart; Carlos Buloscan; 1946

 

Dogeaters; Jessica Hagedorn; 2003


101 Filipino Icons; Bench; Adarna House; 2007

 

Interrupted Lives: Four Women’s Storiesof Internment During World War II in the Phillipines


Escape to Manila: From Nazi Tyranny to Japanese Terror;  Frank Ephraim; 2003


Filipinos in Los Angeles; Mae Respicio Koerner; 2007

Home Bound; Filipino American lives Across Cultures, Communities and Countries; Yen Le Espiritu; 2003

Filipino American Lives; Yen Le Espiritu; 1995


Filipino Americans

Pioneers to the Present

Concordia R. Borja – Mamaril and Tyrone Lim; 2000

 

 

Filipinos in San Francisco; FANHS, MHF, and PEP; 2011

 

Filipinos in Hollywood; Carina Monica Montoya; 2008


Filipinos in Los Angeles; Mae Respicio Koerner; 2007

 

 

The Oracles: My Filipino Grandparents in America; 2006

 

Shaking the Family Tree; Hidalgo and Gonzalez; 1998

 

At My Grandfather’s Knee: A Portrait of Alfonso T. Ongpin; Cynthia Ongpin Valdes; 2006

 

Pacman: My Story of Hope, Resilience; and Never-Say-Never Determination; Pacquiao; 2010



Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission; Hampton Sides; 2001

 

Culture Shock Philippines: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette; Alfredo Roces, Grace Roces; 2010

 

Philippine Folk Tales; Mable Cook Cole; 1916 reprinted 2007

 

Filipino Children’s Favorite Stories; retold by Liana Romulo; 2000


4th Annual Asian Festival Program; Salinas Chinatown; 2011

 

Myth, Mimesis and Magic in the Music of the T’Boli. Phillipines; Manolete Mora; 2005

 

Pinoy Jazz Traditions; Richie C. Quirino; 2004

 

Remember and Reclaim; A Stockton, California Filipino American History Calendar; Little Manila Foundation and Filipino national Historical Society; 2011

 

Nga Katubong Awiting Pagasinan; Cancansion na Pangasinan; 2002

 

Antukin: Philippine Folk Songs and Lullabyes; Felicidad A. Prudente; 1998

 

Philippine Folk Songs: Piano Duets; Carmelito V. Jose; 2007

 

Christify: Bukas Palad; Vocal Arrangements and Liturgical Notes; 2010

 

To Love and Serve; Bukas Palad; Chants; Song Book; 2010

 

50 Immortal Filipino Duets; Rodento L. Romero; 1998

 

Mabuhay Jazz; Richie Quirino; 2008

 

The Oracles: My Filipino Grandparents in America; Pati Navalta Poblete; 2006

 

Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America; Erika Lee and Judy Yung; 2010

 

 


The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora; Theodore S. Gonzalves
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Golden Memories of the San Francisco bay Area; Edited by Steven Friedman; 2000



Mile-High Fever; Dennis Drabelle (story of the Comstock Mine)
Aisle 3
Japanese Music
Filipino Music
Compilations
Japanese Traditional, Folk, Classical, Lullabies and Children's Music

The Camp Dance: The Music and the Memories; Original Cast Recording; 2004



Children’s Songs of the World (Yuyake Koyake); Edita Guberova; 1992


Buddhist Drums, Bell and Chants: recorded at Actual Services in the Temples of Kyoto, Japan; 2007


Hawaiian Nisei Songs: A Musical Cocktail of Japanese American Songs in 1950’s Hawaii; 2000

 

Club Nisei – Encore!  Japanese Music of Hawaii; 2001

 

Club Nisei: Japanese Music of Hawaii; 2000

 

2009 Bon Odori Songs; SDDSTL Hongwanji Place

 

2010 Bon Odori Dances; SDDSTL Hongwanji Place

 

Gathering of Joy: A History of Bon Odori in Mainland America; Reverend Masao Kodani; 1999

 

Nihonmachi: The Place To Be, A Musical Journey; Original Cast Recording

 

53 Years of Music from the Heart; The San Jose Chidori Band; 2006

 

Portfolio of Passion;The San Jose Chidori Band; 2008

 

Shinsei Band: 10th Anniversary; 2008

 

Sayonara: Farewell Tokyo: Souvenir Songs of Japan; 2005

 

The Spirit of Taiko; DVD; 2005

 

The Mighty Warriors of Comedy; 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors; 2007

The Ongaku Masters

An Anthology of Japanese Classical Music;
Celestial Harmonies
Vol. 1: Sacred Music
Vol. 3: Modern Japan
Vol. 4: Cross-overs and Extensions

Obtained from the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Japanese Taiko; Joji Hirota and the Taiko Drummers
Oyasumi: Japanese Lullabies and Restful Melodies
Aiko Shimada (Performer)
Japanese Popular Songs: Selection
Mera (Artist), Uchiyama (Artist)
Gagaku: "Gems from Foreign Lands;" Tokyo Gakuso; Tadaaki Ono.

Celestial Harmonies
The Art of the Koto;
Vol. 1: Celestial Harmonies
Vol. 2: from Yatsuhashi to Miyagi
Vol. 3: Works for Nijugen;

by Nanae Yoshimura
Koto Classics; by Shinichi Yuize; Koto and voice
Natural Sounds of Japan; by Andrew Roth
Japanese Melodies; Anonymous
Gagaku; The Imperial Court Music of Japan; The Kyoto Imperial Court Music Orchestra
Kabuki and Other Traditional Music; Ensemble Nipponia
Nagauta; Ensemble Kineya
KABUKI: Japanese Traditional Music; Kanjincho (no purchase link)



DVD:

Beyond Barbed Wire; (442d Infantry Story); Narrated by Pat Morita; 1997

Filipino Traditional, Folk, Classical, Lullabies and Children's Music

"The Wildman" meets "the Madman" Bobby Enriquez and Richie Cole; 2009


The Prodigious Piano of Bobby Enriquez; 1994


Balangiga 1901; 2003

 

Para Sa’yo Ang Laban Na’To; Manny Pacquiao; 2007



Manta Gowani; Mindanao Kulintang Ensemble; Music of the Southern Philippines;  2003


Mag Otso Ostso; Tayo Bayan; 2003


19 Best Phillipine Folk Dances; Maharlika Rondalla; (no date)


Maguindanao Kulintang; Aga Mayo  Butocan; 2001

 

Kulintang: Ancient Gong/Drim Music from the Southern Phillipines; World Kulintang Institute; 1994


Flamenco Guitar Music of Ramon Montoya and Nini Ricardo; Paco Pena; 1987

 

Spanish Guitar Music; John Williams


Unforgettable Movie Themes From Your Favorite Filipino Films; 2006

 

La Guitarra Filipina; Angelito Agjacaoli; 2002


 



Music of the Phillippines; Fiesta Filipina
20 Best - Phillipine Music; Mabuhay Singers
Immortal Pilipino Songs - Philippine Tagalog Music
Pista; The Mabuhay Singers
Compilations
Lullaby; Various Artists