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Listen but don't ask question : Hawaiian slack key guitar across the Transpacific
- Title
- Listen but don't ask question : Hawaiian slack key guitar across the Transpacific / Kevin Fellezs.
- Author
- Fellezs, Kevin
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 316 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- 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.
- Subject
- Hawaiian guitar music > Hawaii > History and criticism
- Hawaiian guitar music > California > History and criticism
- Hawaiian guitar music > Japan > History and criticism
- Hawaiian guitar music > Pacific Area > History and criticism
- Guitar music (Slack key) > Hawaii > History and criticism
- Guitar music (Slack key) > California > History and criticism
- Guitar music (Slack key) > Japan > History and criticism
- Guitar music (Slack key) > Pacific Area > History and criticism
- Guitar music (Slack key)
- Hawaiian guitar music
- California
- Hawaii
- Japan
- Pacific Area
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-309) and index.
- Contents
- Mapping the polycultural Transpacific -- Getting the 'right Hawaiian feeling' -- Taking Kuleana -- The Aloha affect -- Sounding out the second Hawaiian renaissance -- 'Ohana and the longing to belong -- Pono, a balancing act.
- Call Number
- JME 21-374
- ISBN
- 9781478005995
- 1478005998
- 9781478006718
- 1478006714
- LCCN
- 2019012126
- OCLC
- 1085593140
- Author
- Fellezs, Kevin, author.
- Title
- Listen but don't ask question : Hawaiian slack key guitar across the Transpacific / Kevin Fellezs.
- Publisher
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-309) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Fellezs, Kevin. Listen but don't ask question. Durham : Duke University Press, 2019 9781478007418 (DLC) 2019017236
- Research Call Number
- JME 21-374