Aloha America
Subtitle: hula circuits through the U.S. empire
By: Adria L. Imada
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780822351962; 9780822352075
Subjects: Social aspects; Hula (Dance); Political aspects; Relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Aloha America; title: Lady Jane at the boathouse : the intercultural world of hula; title: Modern desires and counter-colonial tactics : gender, performance, and the erotics of empire; title: Impresarios on the midway : World's Fairs and colonial politics; title: "Hula queens" and "Cinderellas" : imagined intimacy in the empire; title: The troupes meet the troops : military photography and imperial hospitality in the Pacific theater; title: Epilogue : new hula movements; title: Appendix : Hawai'i exhibits at international expositions, 1894-1915.