Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and NPR is celebrating! We have new Tiny Desk concerts for you to watch, podcast episodes for you to listen to, new stories for you to read and some fun merchandise for you to buy!
Join us as we celebrate and update this post with new content throughout the month.
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Tiny Desk:
NPR Music’s Tiny Desk is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. These artists represent just a sliver of the cultural diversity that exists within the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.
Sid Sriram
While you can hear [his] musical influences in these songs, what is really striking is the ease with which he molds them all together. Add to the mix his powerful yet warm vocal quality and the ensemble’s effective layering of sounds. “That’s why music in general encapsulates this idea that pushes are momentum,” Sriram said. “I wanted to figure out how we could bring the spectrum of dynamic and nice [music], and the best way to do it.”
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Throughline:
Mythos and Melodrama in the Philippines
Corruption. Wealth. Authoritarianism. Torture. These are the words many people associate with Ferdinand Marcos, the former dictator of the Philippines, and his wife, Imelda. But in 1965, on the day of his presidential inauguration,…
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