时间:2019-01-31 作者:英语课 分类:VOA常速英语2013年(十月)


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Hip 1 Hop 2 Meets Southeast Asia Poetry in US Midwest


What happens when hip-hop meets an ancient Southeast Asian poetry tradition in the American Midwest? Answer: an unusual collaboration 3 between a young rapper and his grandmother.


 


The American immigrant story usually follows some basic contours. The first generation holds on tight to their old world traditions. Their children try as hard as they possibly can to become “American.” Then in the third generation, the grandchildren often turn back to learn from their grandparents’ culture.


At an outdoor farmer’s market in St. Paul, Minnesota, an elderly woman chants in the dialect of the Hmong people of Laos.  She’s wearing a bright purple turban, a black dress with colorful appliques, a bright, shiny necklace and wrap-around sunglasses.  Next to her is a young man, dressed in black with a baseball cap and jacket.


The young man is her grandson, Tu Saiko Lee - a rapper and poet in a band called Delicious Venom 4.  The woman is his 70-year-old grandmother, Youa Chang, a practitioner 5 of the ancient Hmong poetry tradition of kwv txhiaj.


The Hmong are a tribal 6 people from Laos who supported the United States during America's wars in Southeast Asia.  When the wars ended, large numbers of them fled to the United States, where many settled in Minnesota.  For Tu Siako, this unusual paring with his grandmother began to take shape after a visit he made to Southeast Asia to explore his roots.


“I had the opportunity to go back to Thailand - I was born in a refugee camp in Ng Tai there," he said. "It was an amazing experience for me, discovering the arts through poetry, spoken Word.”  


The trip drove him to explore the many varied 7 methods the Hmong use to express themselves artistically 8.  


“I knew that I really connected to kwv txhiaj in particular, which is Hmong poetry chanting,” he said.


And it’s little wonder why.  His grandmother had been a kwv txhiaj poet back in Laos.  


“When I was growing up I didn’t connect to it.  It seemed like something that the elders did only," he said. "But I was definitely connected to hip-hop.  But when I got a little bit older, I realized there was a connection from what I did to what she does.”  


Kwv txhiaj was giving his grandmother a voice - using poetry to chronicle her experience.  It was the same thing he was doing through hip-hop.  


“I felt like it was important to fuse those two art forms together and showcase it," he said. "Show it to the younger generation to show that I can honor what the elders are doing.”


At the same time, he says, performing alongside his grandmother sends an important message to the older generation.  


“Her teaming with me shows -- like -- elders that, Hey, maybe hip-hop isn’t the negative stereotypes 9 that they might think it is,” he said.




n.臀部,髋;屋脊
  • The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
  • The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。
n.单脚跳,跳跃;vi.单脚跳,跳跃;着手做某事;vt.跳跃,跃过
  • The children had a competition to see who could hop the fastest.孩子们举行比赛,看谁单足跳跃最快。
  • How long can you hop on your right foot?你用右脚能跳多远?
n.合作,协作;勾结
  • The two companies are working in close collaboration each other.这两家公司密切合作。
  • He was shot for collaboration with the enemy.他因通敌而被枪毙了。
n.毒液,恶毒,痛恨
  • The snake injects the venom immediately after biting its prey.毒蛇咬住猎物之后马上注入毒液。
  • In fact,some components of the venom may benefit human health.事实上,毒液的某些成分可能有益于人类健康。
n.实践者,从事者;(医生或律师等)开业者
  • He is an unqualified practitioner of law.他是个无资格的律师。
  • She was a medical practitioner before she entered politics.从政前她是个开业医生。
adj.部族的,种族的
  • He became skilled in several tribal lingoes.他精通几种部族的语言。
  • The country was torn apart by fierce tribal hostilities.那个国家被部落间的激烈冲突弄得四分五裂。
adj.多样的,多变化的
  • The forms of art are many and varied.艺术的形式是多种多样的。
  • The hotel has a varied programme of nightly entertainment.宾馆有各种晚间娱乐活动。
adv.艺术性地
  • The book is beautifully printed and artistically bound. 这本书印刷精美,装帧高雅。
  • The room is artistically decorated. 房间布置得很美观。
n.老套,模式化的见解,有老一套固定想法的人( stereotype的名词复数 )v.把…模式化,使成陈规( stereotype的第三人称单数 )
  • Such jokes tend to reinforce racial stereotypes. 这样的笑话容易渲染种族偏见。
  • It makes me sick to read over such stereotypes devoid of content. 这种空洞无物的八股调,我看了就讨厌。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
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abnormal absorption
Adazi
adhesion contracts
air renewal
atrial fibrillation (af)
Australian dollar
auto partitioning
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beef boneless plate
bolan r.
bottom-unique
brush-decoration
cancer juice
capital of Serbia and Montenegro
Chishona
chuggingly
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Codonopsis pilosula
Commewiine, Dist.
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deck risk
derivative time constant
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drilling and blasting
ear-punch code
excessive loss
family ostraciidaes
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filter input stream class
fused quartzdeposit
gadman
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geodetic coordinate computation
give the key a turn
glossogobius bicirrhosus
hard-arse
hepatocytes
Hutchinson-Boeck disease
injection source
international framework for trade
Jayrūd
lateral spinothalamic tract
learning simulation
library administration
lukisan
machine handle
magnesia tooth paste
make beautiful music
market leader
member server
middle atlantic
mikeal
milk-free
Millstone Point
miscellaneous detail status code
moget
monetaristic
mosteller's k-sample slippage test
motul
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muliere
narrow mouth container
non-artists
nonerasing
one-a-cat
onmeuable
Onosma lycopsioides
operating time of protection
paddleless
paper matrix
plant expansion decision
poking about
Pre-Money Valuation
preparation of a distribution plan
principal planes of bending
promocode
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puccinia melanocephala
pyrolytic stability
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rotating blade propeller
rufinosporin
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single-range instrument
sisal weevil
Smart Board
stereovectorelectrooardiogram
swap lines
takangkou formation
tinaxite (tinaksite)
turkey drumstick
turnipy
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Ure, R.
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