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Nobuko Miyamoto -- What Can a Song Do?

Performing Arts
In Person
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
6522 Hollywood Boulevard Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Date: Jan. 24, 2012

Time: 7 p.m.


Together with a group of guest musicians and activists from the 1960s/‘70s and the present, Miyamoto brings alive the dynamic moment when her 1973 album “A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle of Asians in America,” created a heartbeat for the Asian American Movement and shared rhythms with Black, Latino, and Native American cultural and political activists.

Admission: General admission $10.00 / students $5.00 / FREE for LACE or JANM members. Tickets available at the door.

Organized by: Japanese American National Museum and LACE.

In conjunction with the exhibition Drawing the Line: Japanese American Art, Design & Activism in Post-War Los Angeles


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