... This chapter focuses on the “internal” factors that drew young men to join or form crews, including the allure of social status, the aura of work as a DJ, and the appeal of homosociality. By that same token, the chapter also discusses some of the barriers limiting young women’s joining...

... Hubert Silberrad Crew Circular consent ...

... This chapter examines the “external” factors that fueled the scene’s overall growth, including the intertwined social networks connecting DJ crews, friends, peer-run student or church groups, middle-class parents and relatives, and Filipino community groups. Those networks formed the “social...

..., which weakened a need for crews as support staff; and the inability to port the successes of the mobile scene into a recording industry context. External factors included the rise of other youth cultures that competed for members, such as scratch DJing and import car crews. disc jockeys Filipino...

... by “purchasing” the girls from prominent African men. While the Silberrad case has previously been discussed as the impetus for the Crewe Circular, which sought to crack down on the practice of “concubinage” in the colonies, this chapter focuses on how the scandal imagined the sexuality of both white and African...

... This chapter introduces the phenomenon of the Filipino American mobile disc jockey crews in the Bay Area. It begins with a discussion of the importance of DJs to community formations before moving on to an examination of DJing as a collective activity itself. It also discusses the relevance...

... efforts among crews. Showcases also play a key role in understanding the import of the mobile scene in drawing together Filipino American youth from across different parts of the Bay Area, creating a powerful communal identity in its wake. disc jockeys Asian American Filipino American music...