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• Title:Kīkā kila : how the Hawaiian steel guitar changed the sound of modern music / John W. Troutman.
  
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• Author/Creator:Troutman, John William, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM T76 K55 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Hawaiians.
  Hawaiian guitar--History.
  Music--Hawaii--History.
  Music--United States--History.
  World music--History.
  
• Description:ix, 372 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"Since the nineteenth century, the distinct tones of kīkā kila, the Hawaiian steel guitar, have defined the island sound. Here historian and steel guitarist John W. Troutman offers the instrument's definitive history, from its discovery by a young Hawaiian royalist named Joseph Kekuku to its revolutionary influence on American and world music. During the early twentieth century, Hawaiian musicians traveled the globe, from tent shows in the Mississippi Delta, where they shaped the new sounds of country and the blues, to regal theaters and vaudeville stages in New York, Berlin, Kolkata, and beyond. In the process, Hawaiian guitarists recast the role of the guitar in modern life. But as Troutman explains, by the 1970s the instrument's embrace and adoption overseas also worked to challenge its cultural legitimacy in the eyes of a new generation of Hawaiian musicians. As a consequence, the indigenous instrument nearly diasappeared in its homeland"--Jacket.
  
• Notes:"Published with the assistance of the Anniversary Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-344) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781469627922 (cloth ; alk. paper)
  1469627922
  9781469627939 (ebook)
  1469627930
  
• Contents:Preface : B.B.'s dreams
  Guitar culture in the Hawaiian Kingdom
  Joseph Kekuku's steel guitar and the era of overthrow
  American debut : the making of the steel guitar craze
  Hawaiian troubadours and the global reach of the kīkā kila
  Holly-Hawaiians, electric guitars, and glass ceilings
  The disappearing of "Hawaiian" from American music
  Banishment, and return : seeking the steel guitar in the Hawaiian renaissance
  Epilogue : remembrance and kuleana.