Kīkā kila
Subtitle: how the Hawaiian steel guitar changed the sound of modern music
By: John W. Troutman
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781469627922
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Popular music; History and criticism; Hawaiian guitar; Musicians; Music; World music; Guitarists; History
Description: "Since the nineteenth century, the distinct tones of kīkā kila, the Hawaiian steel guitar, have defined the island sound. Here historian and steel guitarist John W. Troutman offers the instrument's definitive history, from its discovery by a young Hawaiian royalist named Joseph Kekuku to its revolutionary influence on American and world music. During the early twentieth century, Hawaiian musicians traveled the globe, from tent shows in the Mississippi Delta, where they shaped the new sounds of country and the blues, to regal theaters and vaudeville stages in New York, Berlin, Kolkata, and beyond. In the process, Hawaiian guitarists recast the role of the guitar in modern life. But as Troutman explains, by the 1970s the instrument's embrace and adoption overseas also worked to challenge its cultural legitimacy in the eyes of a new generation of Hawaiian musicians. As a consequence, the indigenous instrument nearly diasappeared in its homeland"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-344) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface. B.B.'s dreams; title: Introduction; title: Guitar culture in the Hawaiian Kingdom; title: Joseph Kekuku's steel guitar and the era of overthrow; title: American debut : the making of the steel guitar craze; title: Hawaiian troubadours and the global reach of the kīkā kila; title: Holly-Hawaiians, electric guitars, and glass ceilings; title: The disappearing of "Hawaiian" from American music; title: Banishment, and return : seeking the steel guitar in the Hawaiian renaissance; title: Epilogue. Remembrance and kuleana.