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

Description

Main Author

Fellezs, Kevin

Related Names

Duke University Press

Language(s)

English

Published

Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.

Subjects

Hawaiian guitar music.
Guitar music (Slack key)
Guitar music (Slack key) > Guitar music (Slack key) / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005892 / Pacific Area.
Guitar music (Slack key) > Guitar music (Slack key) / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005892 / Japan.
Guitar music (Slack key) > Guitar music (Slack key) / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005892 / California.
Guitar music (Slack key) > Guitar music (Slack key) / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005892 / Hawaii.
Hawaiian guitar music > Hawaiian guitar music / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85059369 / Pacific Area.
Hawaiian guitar music > Hawaiian guitar music / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85059369 / Japan.
Hawaiian guitar music > Hawaiian guitar music / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85059369 / California.
Hawaiian guitar music > Hawaiian guitar music / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85059369 / Hawaii.
Pacific Area.
Japan.
Hawaii.
California.

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.

Physical Description

xvii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN

1478006714
1478005998
9781478006718
9781478005995

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