Lessons were learned. Any spoilers should be placed in spoiler tags as such. Was he right? Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. And I think I started to look into this historical event in that it's a - it was a lesson, you know? But also, the good thing about history is the more I study it, I see that humanity is actually progressing towards a more compassionate, empathetic state. BASHI: Immigration debate, yeah - Islamophobia and just, like - yeah, like immigrants are coming to kill us and take our jobs. Jokes are fine, but don't post tactless/inappropriate ones. This is the one in Southeast Arkansas. To play this content, you'll need the Spotify app. What connects that to this moment where we are today, as you see it? And I think the lesson here is that history is really complicated. Listen to Summer of '42 in full in the Spotify app. Switch browsers or download Spotify for your desktop. There is no strumming pattern for this song yet. Kishi Bashi, welcome to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I see my daughter, and she's - her classmates I see as a kind of hope for a new generation, you know, coming in and that we are headed in the right direction. So to kind of get that effect, I went to Arkansas in the winter. And I want to start by asking, why is that a subject that you felt needed tackling now? - Kishi Bashi. "What are the things you wanted / The same as anyone," the songwriter and multi-instrumentalist sings. You can have heroes and villains, and that's easy for children to understand. But the more you understand, you know, the more you can grow as a person. The internment of Japanese Americans is the subject of Kishi Bashi's newest music, an album called Omoiyari and this song, "Summer of '42." Produced by Kishi Bashi. We have 5 albums and 42 song lyrics in our database. KELLY: This is the Jerome War Relocation Center. Roosevelt.] But the more you understand, the more you can grow as a person. Be respectful! The song is from the new album by the Japanese American artist Kishi Bashi. He lives today in Athens, Ga. Keep your comments focused on the release. It was open, I gather, from 1942 to 1944. You know, this is a fear tactic that was exactly the same as what happened 76 years ago. Create and get +5 IQ. KELLY: In the song, it's talking about trying to communicate between generations and the language barrier but other barriers that can spring up. But if you look at a lot of the average people on the ground, you know, citizens - white Americans - they probably were afraid. BASHI: Frankly, they're - if you go in the summer, they're really beautiful - some of them - on the West Coast. Kishi Bashi spoke to NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the camps that inspired Omoiyari, reckoning with his identity as a Japanese-American and more. I see them as a kind of hope for a new generation, that we are headed in the right direction. BASHI: (Singing) And while they'd sleep, she'd sing this melody to her beloved sons - forgotten words from Japan. KELLY: So this album is your way of reckoning, I guess, with our country's internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War. BASHI: My daughter - we tried for a while, and it's really difficult, you know? wowie this may be my favorite Kishi Bashi song ever, absolutely fantastic, first song i hear from this guy and i'm super impressed, To risk sounding ignorant, compared to Kishi Bashi's previous work, 'Summer Of '42' sounds intrinsically American. KISHI BASHI: (Singing) Were all the things you wanted the same as anyone? It's about something beautiful - falling in love while living in a prison camp - one of the prison camps where Japanese Americans were sent after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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