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1975

No-No Boy
1975

No-No Boy is the musical project of Vietnamese American singer and scholar Julian Saporiti. On his Smithsonian Folkways debut 1975, named after the year Saigon fell, Saporiti investigates his own family heritage as well as life in WWII Japanese internment camps, immigrant detention centers and refugee camps in 2020, and other stories of immigration that illustrate the complexities of becoming American. His songs are the epitome of folk storytelling in the modern era, as he interweaves histories with field recordings from the sites of collective trauma and fragments of Asian American musical tradition, from jazz to rock, to choral music). With his plaintive, direct voice, he takes listeners on a deeply human journey through the Asian American experience in the US.

Track Listing

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No-No Boy featuring Jacqueline Saporiti
02:04
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102
No-No Boy featuring Robert Vifian
03:31
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103
No-No Boy
03:50
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104
No-No Boy
03:26
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105
No-No Boy featuring Juan Betancourt Garcia
03:26
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106
No-No Boy featuring Emilia Halvorsen
04:32
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107
No-No Boy featuring Emilia Halvorsen
04:19
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108
No-No Boy featuring Kristin Weber
04:42
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109
No-No Boy
02:53
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110
No-No Boy
03:49
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111
No-No Boy featuring Takénobu
02:44
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112
No-No Boy
03:19