Contents -- Acknowledgments -- FOREWORD: Tomorrow Is Now! -- INTRODUCTION: Revolutionary Dreaming and New Dawns -- I: THE MOVEMENT AND THE SELF -- From Banana to Third World Marxist -- Beyond Asian American Jazz: My Musical and Political Changes in the Asian American Movement -- Interview with Chris Mitchell -- II: MUSIC, AESTHETICS, AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION -- What Makes "Jazz" the Revolutionary Music of the Twentieth Century, and Will It Be Revolutionary for the Twenty-first Century? -- Musical Borrowings, Exchanges, and Fusions: New/Experimental Genres -- Kreolization and the Hybridity of Resistance vs. Cultural Imperialism -- Highlights in the History of "Jazz" Not Covered by Ken Burns: A Request from Ishmael Reed -- The Damned Don't Cry: The Life and Music of Calvin Massey -- How to Sell but Not Sell Out: Personal Lessons from Making a Career as a Subversive and Radical Performing Artist -- Big Red Media, Inc., a Composer/Musician-Driven Production Company: Doing It Yourself -- III: ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN CULTURAL THEORY AND CRITICISM -- An Asian American Tribute to the Black Arts Movement -- Asian American Music and Empowerment: Is There Such a Thing as "Asian American Jazz"? -- Interview with Amy Ling -- A Voice Is a Voice, but What Is It Saying? -- Where Is the Asian American Love? -- Bamboo That Snaps Back! Resistance and Revolution in Asian Pacific American Working-Class and Left-Wing Expressive Culture -- Tomoe Tana: Keeping Alive Japanese American Tanka -- Hole Hole Bushi: Cultural/Musical Resistance by Japanese Women Plantation Workers in Early Twentieth-Century Hawaii -- IV: WICKED THEORY, NAKED PRACTICE -- The Inspiration of Mao and the Chinese Revolution on the Black Liberation Movement and the Asian Movement on the East Coast -- Notes on the National Question: Oppressed Nations and Liberation Struggles within the U.S.A.

Matriarchy: The First and Final Communism -- Momentum for Change: Lessons for the East Coast Asian Student Movement -- Flags, Falsehoods, and Fascism: As Long As Imperialism Exists, Chickens Will Come Home to Roost! -- AFTERWORD: Report from the Front Lines: A Dialectics of the Future -- Publication History -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.