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and Elaine is leading the dance in that. Next to her is Nobuko Miyamoto, legendary singer from the Asian American movement years of the 70s especially, but she didn't stop after the 1970s.
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And she is the heart and soul of our project, the creator of the FandangObon Project.
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Next to her, George Abe. Extraordinary musician; well-known in the Japanese community of southern California, and frankly far beyond for his work as a musician,
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and the original- One of the originating Taiko ensembles in the United States, Kinnara Taiko, out of Senshin Buddhist Temple.
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He is also known for his drumming in Obon ceremonies or festivals in the summertime. He is a bon taiko player in short.
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Next to him is Nancy Sekizawa - "Atomic Nancy".
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If you are looking at the Smithsonian blog for the festival, which I hope you are because it's pretty fantastic, there is a great profile of Nancy there, just posted this morning, so it's right at the top of the blog right now.
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If you really want to know what's going on with this woman, read that profile; it's going to blow your mind. It's like super interesting; her history is so interesting. I expect some of that will come out as we proceed.
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Next to me is Sean Miura, who is very much a community activist; I would even say community agitator in a really great way; in a productive way in terms of the art.
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And that too will come out as we proceed. He is a shamisen player. He has- I don't even know how to describe you, because you do so many things, and it all connects in a way that I want to come forward as we talk today.
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Let's start with some straightforward matters. What generation are each of you?
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Surely you know that in a context of immigration and migration, what generation you are matters very, very much indeed.
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In Ethnic Studies, we say the first generation are the folks who emigrated from someplace else to here, in this case, which would be the United States.
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Second generation are the children of those original migrants. Right? Now, third generation, and so on.
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I think we also know that often generations of [[?]]-
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