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Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar across the TransPacific

By: Kevin Fellezs

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Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar across the TransPacific

By: Kevin Fellezs

Performed 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 performed on a non-Hawaiian instrument, it is widely considered to be an authentic Hawaiian tradition grounded in Hawaiian aesthetics and cultural values. In Listen But Don’t Ask Question Kevin Fellezs listens to Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) and non-Hawaiian slack key guitarists in Hawai‘i, California, and Japan, attentive to the ways in which notions of Kanaka Maoli belonging and authenticity are negotiated and articulated in all three locations. 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 nurtures a merged Japanese-Hawaiian artistic and cultural sensibility. For diasporic Hawaiians in California, it provides a way to claim Hawaiian identity. By demonstrating how slack key guitar is a site for the articulation of Hawaiian values, Fellezs illuminates how slack key guitarists are reconfiguring notions of Hawaiian belonging, aesthetics, and politics throughout the transPacific.

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Duke University Press

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1478007419

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9781478007418

Birds of Fire

Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion

By: Kevin Fellezs

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Birds of Fire

Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion

By: Kevin Fellezs

An analysis of the emergence, reception, and legacy of fusion, experimental music that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s as musicians combined jazz, rock, and funk in new ways.

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Duke University Press

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0822350475

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9780822350477

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Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar across the TransPacific

By: Kevin Fellezs

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Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar across the TransPacific

By: Kevin Fellezs

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Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production

Two Haiku and a Microphone

By: William H. Bridges,Nina Cornyetz

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Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production

Two Haiku and a Microphone

By: William H. Bridges,Nina Cornyetz

Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African Diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural borders. Be it focused on the make-up of the blackface ganguro or the haiku of Richard Wright, Rastafari communities in Japan or the black enka singer Jero, the volume turns its attention away from questions of representation to ones concerning the generative aspects of transcultural production. The contributors are interested primarily in texts in motion—the contradictory motion within texts, the traveling of texts, and the action that such kinetic energy inspires in readers, viewers, listeners, and travelers. As our texts travel and travail, the originary nodal points that anchor them to set significations loosen and are transformed; the essays trace how, in the process of traveling, the bodies and subjectivities of those working to reimagine the text(s) in new sites moderate, accommodate, and transfigure both the texts and themselves.

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303

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Lexington Books

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1498505481

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9781498505482

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