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120,000 Stories

Not Yo' Butterfly

What Time is It on the Clock of the Wo...

120,000 Stories

A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggl...

Biography

120,000 Stories, Nobuko Miyamoto's first album since 1973, evokes the approximate number of people of Japanese ancestry who were incarcerated in camps run by the United States government during World War II. Learn more here: https://www.nobukomiyamoto.org/ A veteran of both Broadway and the protest line, Nobuko Miyamoto is an icon of Asian American music and activism. Growing up in the 1940s as a third-generation Japanese American "without a song of my own," she found her voice in the 1960s through the revolutionary movements occurring in the U.S. and abroad. In 1973, she co-created the seminal album A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America (Paredon), widely recognized as the first such compilation of Asian American music. With neither guideposts nor role models for reference, Nobuko improvised her own artistic path as a songwriter, dancer, and theater artist. Across five decades, she forged a creative practice that thrives on collaboration and continues today with a fire for justice.