Hawaiian Music in Motion: Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780252038600)

Hawaiian Music in Motion 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. James Revell Carr draws on journals and ships' logs to trace the circulation of Hawaiian song and dance worldwide as Hawaiians served aboard American and European ships. He also examines important issues like American minstrelsy in Hawaii and the ways Hawaiians achieved their own ends by capitalizing on Americans' conflicting expectations and fraught discourse around hula and other musical practices.


Author: James Revell Carr
ISBN-10: 0252038606
ISBN-13: 9780252038600
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 11/03/2014
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.64w x 0.89d