Hawaiian Music in Motion explores the performance, reception, transmission, and adaptation of Hawaiian music on board ships and in the islands, revealing the ways both maritime commerce and imperial confrontation facilitated the circulation of popular music in the nineteenth century. James Revell Carr draws on journals and ships' logs to trace the circulation of Hawaiian song and dance worldwide as Hawaiians served aboard American and European ships. He also examines important issues like American minstrelsy in Hawaii and the ways Hawaiians achieved their own ends by capitalizing on Americans' conflicting expectations and fraught discourse around hula and other musical practices.
| Cover Title Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Setting Sail 1. "Lascivious Gestures" and "Festive Sports": Early Interactions, 1778–1802 2. "A Wild Sort of Note": Hawaiian Music at Sea 3. Hukihuki: Mariners, Missionaries, and the Struggle for Hawaiian Bodies and Sould 4. "Hale Diabolo": The Royal Hawaiian Theatre and the Rise of Popular Music in Honolulu 5. "Honolulu Hula Hula Heigh": The Legacy of Maritime Music in Hawai'i Notes Bibliography Index | Co-winner of the Alan Merriam Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2015. — Society for Ethnomusicology
|James Revell Carr is an associate professor of ethnomusicology at University of North Carolina Greensboro.