Nobuko Miyamoto: From Japanese Internment to Hollywood to Third World Liberation
b'Guest: Nobuko Miyamoto\\xa0is a third-generation Japanese American songwriter, dance and theater artist, and activist, and is the Artistic Director of Great Leap. Her work has explored ways to reclaim and decolonize our minds, bodies, histories, and communities, using the arts to create social change and solidarity across cultural borders.\\xa0Two of Nobuko\\u2019s albums are part of the Smithsonian Folkways catalog:\\xa0A Grain of Sand, with Chris Iijima and Charlie Chin, produced by Paredon Records in 1973, and\\xa0120,000 Stories, released by Smithsonian Folkways in 2021. Her memoir Not Yo\\u2019 Butterfly: My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution will be released in June this year.\\n\\xa0\\nThe post Nobuko Miyamoto: From Japanese Internment to Hollywood to Third World Liberation appeared first on KPFA.'