Hawaiian music in motion
Subtitle: mariners, missionaries, and minstrels
By: James Revell Carr
Series: Music in American life; Music in American life
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780252080197; 9780252038600
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: History and criticism; Music
Description: Explores the performance, reception, transmission, and adaptation of Hawaiian music on board ships and in the islands, revealing the ways both maritime commerce and imperial confrontation facilitated the circulation of popular music in the nineteenth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-210) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Lascivious gestures" and "Festive sports" : early interactions, 1778-1802; title: " A wild sort of note" : Hawaiian music at sea; title: Hukihuki : mariners, missionaries, and the struggle for Hawaiian bodies and souls; title: "Hale diabolo" : the Royal Hawaiian Theatre and the rise of popular music in Honolulu; title: "Honolulu hula hula heigh" : the legacy of maritime music in Hawai'i.