Julian Saporiti And Erin Aoyama Biography

Julian Saporiti has transformed his doctoral research at Brown University into folk songs in an effort to bring these stories to a broader audience. Alongside Aoyama a fellow PhD student at Brown whose family was incarcerated at one of the 10 Japanese American concentration camps No-No Boy aims to shine a light on experiences that have remained largely hidden in the American consciousness. Performing everywhere from universities and cultural centers to rural churches and bars No-No Boy aims to illuminate an understudied past and in doing so generate conversations about the present with diverse audiences. While living out west Julian made several trips to the remains of the Heart Mountain concentration camp in northwest Wyoming where during WW2 the US government unconstitutionally incarcerated over 10000 people of Japanese descent most of whom were US citizens. These trips made a profound impact and inspired Saporiti to begin interviewing camp survivors and researching the music performed in the camps. From these interviews and thinking about his own displaced family of Vietnamese refugees he began writing No-No Boy. He is currently living in Providence Rhode Island continuing this research composing and recording music and pursuing a PhD at Brown University where he also directs the Brown Arts Initiative Songwriters Workshop and teaches a course expanding the No-No Boy project.

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