{"id":4407,"date":"2014-04-14T15:51:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T15:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=4407"},"modified":"2023-09-18T16:35:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T16:35:06","slug":"remembering-a-professor-of-revolutionary-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2014\/04\/14\/remembering-a-professor-of-revolutionary-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering a Professor of Revolutionary Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is with much sadness that we learn of the passing of Fred Ho, a composer, musician, writer, activist and self-described &#8220;professor of revolutionary imagination.&#8221;\u00a0 The Fred Ho Papers are held in Archives &amp; Special Collections, a relationship built by Dr. Roger Buckley, professor of history and founding Director of the Asian American Studies Institute. The <a href=\"https:\/\/archivessearch.lib.uconn.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/435\">finding aid<\/a> to the papers, prepared by the Asian American Studies Institute, describes Mr. Ho:<\/p>\n<p><i>Fred Ho, the Asian American musician, composer, writer, and activist combines music and politics to fight discrimination and redefine American identity. He has developed a &#8220;new American multicultural music&#8221; which recognizes the diverse cultural contributions to twentieth century American music. His revolutionary compositions challenge the status quo by providing an artistically provocative vision for the future. Ho&#8217;s intent in composing music is not only to recognize different forms, but to convey anti-oppression messages that provide an alternate framework upon which American identity is defined.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A commitment to multiculturalism and diversity has not always been an integral part of Ho&#8217;s character. His coming of age as an Asian American was marked by feelings of denial, anger, and confusion about his Chinese identity. As a result, Ho has dealt with racial discrimination in different ways throughout his life, first by assimilating, then by confronting it through activism and music. Now a prominent musician, Ho works to raise social consciousness by transforming his experience into positive action.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Steven de Castro shares his view of the endless creativity of Fred Ho.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h2wjVwfNvGo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent&#038;listType=playlist&#038;list=PL6c3OKI1FIRIZAe20GY1GGGsUbN2YcxI-\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ho&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/13\/arts\/music\/fred-ho-56-composer-and-radical-activist-dies.html?hp&amp;_r=0\">obituary<\/a> appears in the New York Times, April 12, 2014.\u00a0 Rest in peace.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with much sadness that we learn of the passing of Fred Ho, a composer, musician, writer, activist and self-described &#8220;professor of revolutionary imagination.&#8221;\u00a0 The Fred Ho Papers are held in Archives &amp; Special Collections, a relationship built by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2014\/04\/14\/remembering-a-professor-of-revolutionary-imagination\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-195","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4407"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9996,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions\/9996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}