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- What's Making You Sappy Episode 8: Varun SoniThe How Do You Like It So Far team wishes you a happy 2021! With last year being one of collective pain, sorrow and loss, we need a new anthem for a new day that can inspire and comfort us. Take some recs from Varun Soni, USC's Dean of Religious Life. He has certainly helped plenty of Trojans through spiritual hardships, and hopefully the words of the seminal Bob Dylan can do the same to you. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Share your via email at [email protected].3 min
- What's Making You Sappy Episode 7: Set Hernandez Rongkilyo2020 is finally coming to a close, and with it, also comes the year's final media recommendations from the How Do You Like It So Far team! Today's recommendations come from Set Hernandez Rongkilyo, an undocumented immigrant filmmaker and community organizer. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Share your via email at [email protected].4 min
- What's Making You Sappy Episode 6: Sue DingTis the season to be jolly (even if the world is burning), and with it, our weekly media recommendation is here! This week we have Sue Ding, who is a documentary filmmaker and new media creator based in Los Angeles. She directs and produces nonfiction media—for platforms including The New York Times, PBS, and Netflix (latter of which released her new film "The Claudia Kishi Club"!!) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Share your via email at [email protected].3 min
- What's Making You Sappy Episode 5: Janae Phillips and Shawn TaylorThis week's pop culture recommendations come from those who change the world with them -- Janae Phillips, Director of Leadership and Education for the Harry Potter Alliance, who oversees the Granger Leadership Academy and the Fandom Forward study guides project, among other things. Shawn Taylor is one of the founders of Nerds of Color and a founding organizer of the Black Comix Arts Festival, a festival that highlights and promotes artists on the margins of the mainstream comic book industry. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Share your via email at [email protected].4 min
- What's Making You Sappy Episode 4: Suzanne Scott and Susan KresnickaAs winter approaches, we all need our list of media recs to keep us warm and safe during this season! This week's episode features Suzanne Scott, author of Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry. Also on the episode is Susan Kresnicka, a cultural and business anthropologist and president and founder of cultural research firm Kresnicka Research and Insights! ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Share your via email at [email protected].2 min
- From Hip Hop to TikTok with Dexter Thomas
This week we welcome Japanese Hip Hop scholar and reporter for Vice News, Dexter Thomas, and we talk a little bit about Vice News but mostly about Dexter’s outsider approach to journalism and the freedom he feels as a Black reporter at Vice in not being obligated to maintain the myth of a neutral perspective. Dexter shares his path to Vice, from college DJ to PhD in Asian Studies at Columbia University, freelance writer to the LA Times. We dive into hip hop music and culture in Japan, from its right-wing nationalist strains to its complicated relationship to Blackness, American imperialism and Black politics. That brings us to the hypersegmented world of TikTok, how today’s internet can be seen as isolating and reducing common language but also allows for new community and voice...and as powerful a space for activism as the streets. Ultimately, we come to a place of hope in our current moment, seeing the opportunity to acknowledge things that have been broken in America for a long time, and making it clearer that nothing will move forward without work.
As a closing thought, we point you to the bonus minisodes we’ll be releasing while we’re on semester break – “What’s Making Us Sappy” – where we share recent guests’ media recommendations to broaden your winter watch/read/play/listen list.
Visit the episode page for the full transcript of this conversation!
Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:
Some Japanese cultural references mentioned in this episode:
Tokyo destinations: Takadanobaba, Akihabara, Yoyogi Park
Kogyaru fashion (including deep tanning)
Nanking MassacreBooks mentioned in this episode:
Hip-Hop Japan by Ian Condry
The Soul of Anime by Ian Condry
Blue Nippon by Taylor Atkins
Race for Citizenship by Helen Heran JunMusic featured in this episode:
Gauze (Japanese Hard Punk)
Zeebra, Street Dreams (Japanese Hip Hop)
SUNDAY SCHOOL, Lucien Hughes (Vaporwave)
Last Summer Whisper, Anri (City Pop)Activism on TikTok
Some background on 4Chan
2020 protests in Portland
Dexter’s Vice reporting
Listen to our “What’s Making Us Sappy” minisodes - make sure you subscribe to get the latest!
NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour
Henry’s recommendations:
Utopia (2020, Amazon, based on an earlier British show)
The Good Lord Bird (Showtime)Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected].
Music:
“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.
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In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmet
Spaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeats
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumental
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––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––1 hr 13 min - What's Making You Sappy Episode 3: Damian E. Duffy, John Jennings, and Shelley StreebyThis week's episode of "What's Making You Sappy" is all about the legacy of Octavia Butler, an exceptional science fiction writer who wrote about gender and sexuality in bold new ways. With that, we have graphic novel and sci-fi recommendations from Shelley Streeby, Professor of Literature and Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego, Director of Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop, John Jennings, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and a Collaborating Faculty Member in the Department of Creative Writing at UC Riverside, and Damian E. Duffy, a Cartoonist, Scholar, Lecturer, Writer, Curator, Teacher, #1 New York Times Bestseller Graphic Novelist. Jennings and Duffy are collaborating on a project to adapt Butler’s Kindred and Parable of the Sower to graphic novels. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Share your via email at [email protected].5 min
- Skateboarding Subculture Surprises with Zoë Corwin and Neftalie Williams
This week we’re joined by two USC colleagues, Zoë Corwin of the Pullias Center for Higher Education and Annenberg’s Neftalie Williams, who share some of what they’ve found studying skateboarding culture and its impact on youth. Spoiler alert: the impact is overwhelmingly positive! From literally creating safer spaces for Black youth to fostering wide-ranging skills like problem-solving, media creation and diplomacy, to the integral roles of skateshops and skateparks in their communities, Zoë and Neftalie talk us through their study, why it matters, and how it links to other theories and disciplines. Along the way, we learn a bit about skating culture in LA and abroad and how that’s been impacted by the COVID pandemic, and discuss the tension that exists between skating and university spaces (USC specifically), and how that could be viewed differently as a way to invite neighborhood youth into privileged academic communities.
Visit the episode page for the full transcript of this conversation!
Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:
Gibson Mariposa Skatepark in El Monte
Photo Tour
Video Skate-throughUSC Pullias Center Skateboarding Study
Tony Hawk Foundation (now called The Skatepark Project)
What is a Critical Race Theory framework?
Diplomacy through SkateboardingCity of Skate – Minneapolis
Enchantment Skate Shop – Gallup, NM
The Garage Board Shop – East LAScholar Cathy J. Cohen
Sand in LA’s Venice Beach Skatepark
LA-area skateparks reopening
Skateboarding the USC Ledges (video)AOC's Twitch stream
University of Colorado-Boulder Energy Skate Park simulation teaches Physics
Skateboarding high school in skate-friendly Malmö, Sweden
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (if You’re a Girl) – SkateistanSkateism magazine
Samarria Brevard
Skate to the Polls movementHenry’s Comic Shops:
Million Year Picnic – Cambridge, MA
Comics Factory – Pasadena, CAJames Paul Gee – Affinity Spaces
Van Jones on the Politics of Joy
Forsyth County, GA:
Racial cleansing of 1912
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
March for Racial Tolerance 1987
Oprah Winfrey show in Forsyth CountyVideo
Music:
“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmet
Spaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeats
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumental
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceship
Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––1 hr 19 min - What's Making You Sappy Episode 2: William O. GardnerEither to wind down from the crazy week we just had, or to take a well-deserved breather from the work that is ahead of us, "How Do You Like It So Far" team welcomes you to the second episode of our weekly media recommendations! This week, we have William O. Gardner, professor of Japanese language, literature and film at Swarthmore College. From animated features by the seminal Shinkai Makoto to a Russian novel set during the Black Death, Gardner introduces works of escapism and fantasy that seem eerily relevant today. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Share your via email at [email protected].4 min
- What's Making You Sappy Episode 1: Clifford Johnson & Dan GoldmanWelcome to the first episode of "What's Making You Sappy," Henry Jenkins and Colin Maclay's pop culture happy hour! For this week, we have recommendations from Clifford Johnson, a Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at USC and author of The Dialogues. We also have Dan Goldman, a writer, an artist, producer and founder and narrative lead of Kinjin Story Lab, whose work spans from graphic novels, TV and video games. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Share your via email at [email protected].6 min
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Academics Henry Jenkins and Colin Maclay use their combined knowledge to dig deeper and ask more ambitious questions than most pop culture podcasts out there – not doing recaps or just remaining on…
the level of entertainment coverage. For them, popular culture offers resources for asking questions about who we are and where we are going, questions that can be political, legal, technological, economic, or social, but often cut across all of the above.