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Hawaiian Music and Oceanizing American Studies
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James RevellCarr, Hawaiian Music in Motion: Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2014, $25.00). Pp. 240. isbn978 0 2520 8019 7.
Adria L.Imada, Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012, $27.95). Pp. 392. isbn978 0 8223 5207 5.
John WilliamTroutman, Kīkā Kila: How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016, $37.50). Pp. 392. isbn978 1 4696 2792 2.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2018
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American studies has been dedicated to understanding cultural forms from its beginnings as a field. Music, as one such form, is especially centered in the field as a lens through which to seek the cultural “essence” of US America – as texts from which to glean insight into negotiations of intellectual thought, social relations, subaltern resistance, or identity formation, or as a form of labor that produces an exchangeable commodity. In particular, the featuring of folk, indigenous, and popular music directly responded to anxieties in the intellectual circles of the postwar era around America's purported lack of serious culture in comparison to Europe. According to John Gilkeson, American studies scholars in the 1950s and 1960s “vulgarized” the culture concept introduced by the Boasian school of anthropology, opening the door to serious consideration of popular culture as equal in value to high culture.1
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