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   Whose Master's Voice? The Development of Popular Music in Thirteen Cultures (Chap. 5 "A Brief History of Music Production in Hawaii") » Read Now

   by Alison J. Ewbank, Fouli T. Papageorgiou. 264 pgs.

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   What are the interactions between transnational communication and national cultures? This work attempts to answer this critical question in the study of culture and communication. It takes as its vehicle of study the music industry and music making in 13 different cultures, presenting an insider's...

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   What are the interactions between transnational communication and national cultures? This work attempts to answer this critical question in the study of culture and communication. It takes as its vehicle of study the music industry and music making in 13 different cultures, presenting an insider's view of a global cultural experience. Of interest to musicologists and sociologists alike, plus anyone fascinated by distant cultures and how they are affected by external as well as internal communication systems.

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   Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula » Read Now

   by Nathaniel B. Emerson. 292 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

   ...XXI. The music and musical instruments of the Hawaiians 138...Awa-puhi , a Hawaiian ginger 210...II. Music from the nose...resemblances of the Hawaiian dance to the...
   
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   Paradise Remade: The Politics of Culture and History in Hawai'i ("New Forms of Hawaiian Music" begins on p. 114) » Read Now

   by Elizabeth Buck. 246 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library

   This is a book about the politics of competing cultures and myths in a colonized nation. Elizabeth Buck considers the transformation of Hawaiian culture focusing on the indigenous population rather than on the colonizers. She describes how Hawaii's established religious, social, political, and...

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   This is a book about the politics of competing cultures and myths in a colonized nation. Elizabeth Buck considers the transformation of Hawaiian culture focusing on the indigenous population rather than on the colonizers. She describes how Hawaii's established religious, social, political, and economic relationships have changed in the past 200 years as a result of Western imperialism. Her account is particularly timely in light of the current Hawaiian demands for sovereignty 100 years after the overthrow of the monarchy in 1893.Buck examines the social transformation Hawaii from a complex hierarchical, oral society to an American state dominated by corporate tourism and its myths of paradise. She pays particular attention to the ways contemporary Hawaiians are challenging the use of their traditions as the basis for exoticized entertainment.Buck demonstrates that sacred chants and hula were an integral part of Hawaiian social life; as the repository of the people's historical memory, chants and hula practices played a vital role in maintaining the links between religious, political, and economic relationships. Tracing the ways in which Hawaiian culture has been variously suppressed and constructed by Western explorers, New England missionaries, the tourist industry, ethnomusicologists, and contemporary Hawaiians, Buck offers a fascinating "rereading" of Hawaiian history. Author note: Elizabeth Buck is a Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai'i.

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   Rockin' the Boat: Mass Music and Mass Movements (Chap. 10 "Don' Go Down Waikiki: Social Protest and Popular Music in Hawaii") » Read Now

   by Reebee Garofalo. 333 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library

   ...Ideology in Popular Hawaiian Music", in Popular Music...French creole, and Hawaiian. 9 "It is difficult...point out, "that rock music is Western in quite...Protest and...
   
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   Dance of Life: Popular Music and Politics in Southeast Asia ("The Evolution and Meaning of Hawaiian Music" begins on p. 22) » Read Now

   by Craig A. Lockard. 390 pgs.

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   ...The Evolution and Meaning of Hawaiian Music In the early years after Americans...accessible and understandable. 92 Hawaiian music reached a nadir in the 1960s...prompting...
   
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   Hawaiian Hula Competitions Event, Repertoire Peformance, Tradition, in Journal of American Folklore » Read Now

   by Amy Ku'Uleialoha Stillman. 24 pgs.

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