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Oliver Wang interviews R.J. Smith about his biography of the hardest working man in show business: The One: The Life and Music of James Brown.
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Oliver Wang is a professor of sociology at CSU Long Beach and the author of Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews in the San Francisco Bay Area (2015) and Cruising J-Town: Japanese American Car Culture in Los Angeles (2025).