The Hula
Jerry Hopkins originally wrote The Hula in 1982. He has written 36 books in all, including the bestselling Jim Morrison biography No One Here Gets Out Alive (#1, New York Times); Elvis In Hawai'i; and Don Ho: My Music, My Life. A longtime editor of Rolling Stone, he lived in Hawai'i from 1976 to 1993 and now resides in Thailand.Rebecca Kamili'ia Erickson was a contributing editor for Na Ki'i Pohaku: A Hawaiian Petroglyph Primer and Hawaii Island Artists and Friends of the Arts. A longtime editor for Guitar Player magazine, she lived in Hawai'i from 1978 to 2011 and now resides in Austin, Texas where she continues to write about its thriving music culture.Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman is Professor of American Culture and Music at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and director of the Great Lakes Hula Academy. Born in Honolulu, she attended Kahuku Elementary School, Kalani High School, and the University of Hawai'i, then completed the Ph.D. at Harvard. The author of Sacred Hula: The Historical Hula ' Ã‚la'apapa (1998), she is widely respected for her research on historical sources of Hawaiian music and hula. In 2010 2011, she was the Dai Ho Chun Distinguished Visiting Chair in the College of Arts and Humanities at University of Hawai'i at MÃ¢noa.