Listen but don't ask question : Hawaiian slack key guitar across the Transpacific /

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Author / Creator:Fellezs, Kevin, author.
Imprint:Durham : Duke University Press, [2019]
Description:xvii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:Hawaiian guitar music -- Hawaii.
Hawaiian guitar music -- California.
Hawaiian guitar music -- Japan.
Hawaiian guitar music -- Pacific Area.
Guitar music (Slack key) -- Hawaii.
Guitar music (Slack key) -- California.
Guitar music (Slack key) -- Japan.
Guitar music (Slack key) -- Pacific Area.
Guitar music (Slack key)
Hawaiian guitar music.
California.
Hawaii.
Japan.
Pacific Area.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12004293
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ISBN:9781478005995
1478005998
9781478006718
1478006714
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-309) and index.
Summary:"Played on an acoustic steel-string guitar with open tunings and a finger-picking technique, Hawaiian slack key guitar music emerged in the mid-nineteenth century. Though played on a non-Hawaiian instrument and being influenced by Mexican cowboy culture, it is widely considered to be a truly Hawaiian tradition grounded in Hawaiian aesthetics and cultural values. In Listen But Don't Ask Question Kevin Fellezs examines Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) and non-Hawaiian slack key guitar in Hawai'i, California, and Japan, tracing how notions of belonging and authenticity become contested depending on who plays the music and where. In Hawai'i slack key guitar functions as a sign of Kanaka Maoli cultural renewal, resilience, and resistance in the face of appropriation and occupation, while in Japan it becomes the means through which to create a merged Japanese-Hawaiian artistic and cultural sensibility. For diasporic Hawaiians in California, it provides with a way to claim Hawaiian identity. By demonstrating how slack key guitar is a site for the articulation of Hawaiian-ness Fellezs illuminates how slack key guitarists are reconfiguring notions of Hawaiian belonging throughout the Transpacific."--Provided by publisher.
Other form:Online version: Fellezs, Kevin. Listen but don't ask question. Durham : Duke University Press, 2019 9781478007418