Article
DOCUMENTATION GOES HERE.
GET /api/0.1/articles/A%20Grain%20of%20Sand%20(album)/?format=api
{ "url_title": "A Grain of Sand (album)", "title_sort": "grainofsanda", "links": { "json": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/A%20Grain%20of%20Sand%20(album)/?format=api", "html": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/A%20Grain%20of%20Sand%20(album)?format=api" }, "modified": "2024-01-18T16:56:41", "title": "A Grain of Sand (album)", "body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div id=\"databox-Albums\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n Name:A Grain of Sand;\nArtist:Chris Iijima; Nobuko Miyamoto; William \"Charlie\" Chin;\nType:;\nRecorded:;\nReleased:1973;\nGenre:;\nLength:;\nLabel:;\nProducer:Paredon Records;\nWebsite:;\nMBLink:;\nDCLink:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://www.discogs.com/release/6021271\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://www.discogs.com/release/6021271\n </a>\n ;\n </p>\n </div>\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <div class=\"rgonly\">\n <!--\"rgdatabox-CoreDisplay\" removed-->\n <div id=\"rgdatabox-Core\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n RGMediaType:albums;\nTitle:A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America;\nCreators:Chris Kando Iijima; Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto; William \"Charlie\" Chin;\nInterestLevel:Grades 9-12; Adult;\nReadingLevel:;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Evils of racism; Immigrant experience; Injustice;\nGenre:Contemporary Folk;\nPoV:Multiple;\nRelatedEvents:Native American experiences; Latino American experiences; Chinese American experiences; African American experiences;\nAvailability:Widely available;\nFreeWebVersion:No;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:No;\nWarnings:Some drug content;\nDenshoTopic:;\nGeography:California; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York;\nChronology:1970s;\nFacility:;\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <p>\n Originally produced and released in 1973 by Paredon Records,\n <i>\n A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America\n </i>\n by folk trio\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Chris_Iijima/\" title=\"Chris Iijima\">\n Chris Kando Iijima\n </a>\n ,\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Nobuko_Miyamoto/\" title=\"Nobuko Miyamoto\">\n Nobuko JoAnne Miyamoto\n </a>\n , and William \"Charlie\" Chin is widely recognized to be the first album of Asian American music. The record is a combination of folk songs, political ballads and protest songs. The music was written, performed and recorded at the height of the Asian American, black, and anti-war movements in the early '70s by New York musicians and activists Iijima, Miyamoto, and Chin, who were then in their twenties and early thirties. The original album includes artwork by Arlan Huang/Artist Resource Basement Workshop on the album jacket and liner notes with a political statement by the musicians, lyrics, and a list of Asian American publications from the era. One of the songs, \"We Are the Children,\" is likely the first song in English to explicitly mention the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.\n </p>\n <p>\n \"A Grain of Sand\" was re-issued in 1997 in CD format by Bindu Records. In 1991, the entire Paredon catalog was donated to the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, which has made the album and their original liner notes available online.\n </p>\n <p>\n Track list:\n </p>\n <ul>\n <li>\n Yellow Pearl\n </li>\n <li>\n Wandering Chinaman\n </li>\n <li>\n Imperialism is Another Word for Hunger\n </li>\n <li>\n Something About Me Today\n </li>\n <li>\n Jonathan Jackson\n </li>\n <li>\n We Are the Children\n </li>\n <li>\n Warriors of the Rainbow\n </li>\n <li>\n Foolish Old Man who Removed the Mountains\n </li>\n <li>\n Somos Asiaticos (We are Asians)\n </li>\n <li>\n War of the Flea\n </li>\n <li>\n Divide and Conquer\n </li>\n <li>\n Free the Land\n </li>\n </ul>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n <b>\n Authored by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Patricia_Wakida/\" title=\"Patricia Wakida\">\n Patricia Wakida\n </a>\n </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n Wakida, Patricia\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n For More Information\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Kim, Sojin. \"\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.folkways.si.edu/magazine/2011_spring/cover_story-a-grain-of-sand.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America.\n </a>\n \"\n <i>\n Smithsonian Folkways Magazine\n </i>\n , Spring 2011.\n </p>\n <p>\n Phillips, Gary. \"\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://colorlines.com/article/dancing-between-notes-music-and-asian-american-panethnicity/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Dancing Between the Notes: Music and Asian American Panethnicity.\n </a>\n \"\n <i>\n Colorlines\n </i>\n , June 10, 1998.\n </p>\n <p>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.folkways.si.edu/chris-kando-iijima-joanne-nobuko-miyamoto-charlie-chin/a-grain-of-sand-music-for-the-struggle-by-asians-in-america/american-folk-protest/music/album/smithsonian\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Smithsonian Folkways site.\n </a>\n [Includes liner notes/lyrics and links to music.\n </p>\n <p>\n <i>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://resourceguide.densho.org/A%20Song%20for%20Ourselves%20(film)/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n A Song for Ourselves\n </a>\n </i>\n . Documentary film written and directed by Tadashi Nakamura. Los Angeles: Downtown Community Media Center, 2009. [Documentary film on the life of Chris Iijima.]\n </p>\n <p>\n Wang, Oliver. \"Between the Notes: Finding Asian America in Popular Music.\"\n <i>\n American Music\n </i>\n 19.4 (Winter 2001): 439–65.\n </p>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20240418160710\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.014 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.020 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 232/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 5338/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 1466/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 4/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 6.842 1 -total\n 35.37% 2.420 1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 21.47% 1.469 1 Template:Databox-Albums\n 21.29% 1.457 1 Template:Published\n 19.96% 1.366 1 Template:AuthorByline\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:1499-0!canonical and timestamp 20240418160710 and revision id 35973\n -->\n </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"toplink\">\n <a href=\"#top\">\n <i class=\"icon-chevron-up\">\n </i>\n Top\n </a>\n</div>", "categories": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/categories/Arts/?format=api" ], "sources": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/sources/en-grainofsand-1/?format=api" ], "coordinates": {}, "authors": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/authors/Patricia%20Wakida/?format=api" ], "ddr_topic_terms": [], "prev_page": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/A%20Girl%20Like%20You%20(book)/?format=api", "next_page": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/A%20Hero's%20Hero%20(film)/?format=api" }