Julian Saporiti (No-No Boy) on Si...

Julian Saporiti (No-No Boy) on Singing Asian American History and Buddhism

Cha-Tea Circle: A Podcast Series on Asian American Spiritual... by Chanhee Heo, Elaine Lai, Chenxing Han, and Xianfeng Shi
S1 · E3
Jun 23, 2024
59:22

Episode notes

Chanhee interviews Julian Saporiti, a musician-historian whose celebrated No-No Boy project creates folk songs as a way of telling Asian American history. Julian takes us on a wide-ranging journey, covering his relationship to Buddhism and activism, his subversive style and storytelling approach through music, and the challenges and connections he feels with the term “Asian American."

Keywords

Asian American
buddhism
Musician Historian
Music
Storytelling
Activism