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Aloha America - Hula Circuits Through the U.s. Empire

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Informationen zum Autor Adria L. Imada Klappentext Winner, 2013 Best First Book in Women's, Gender, and/or Sexuality History by the Berkshire Conference of Women HistoriansWinner, 2013 Lawrence W. Levine Award, Organization of American HistoriansWinner, 2013 Congress on Research in Dance Outstanding Publication AwardAloha America reveals the role of hula in legitimating U.S. imperial ambitions in Hawai'i. Hula performers began touring throughout the continental United States and Europe in the late nineteenth century. These "hula circuits" introduced hula, and Hawaiians, to U.S. audiences, establishing an "imagined intimacy," a powerful fantasy that enabled Americans to possess their colony physically and symbolically. Meanwhile, in the early years of American imperialism in the Pacific, touring hula performers incorporated veiled critiques of U.S. expansionism into their productions.At vaudeville theaters, international expositions, commercial nightclubs, and military bases, Hawaiian women acted as ambassadors of aloha, enabling Americans to imagine Hawai'i as feminine and benign, and the relation between colonizer and colonized as mutually desired. By the 1930s, Hawaiian culture, particularly its music and hula, had enormous promotional value. In the 1940s, thousands of U.S. soldiers and military personnel in Hawai'i were entertained by hula performances, many of which were filmed by military photographers. Yet, as Adria L. Imada shows, Hawaiians also used hula as a means of cultural survival and countercolonial political praxis. In Aloha America, Imada focuses on the years between the 1890s and the 1960s, examining little-known performances and films before turning to the present-day reappropriation of hula by the Hawaiian self-determination movement. Zusammenfassung Paying particular attention to hula performances that toured throughout the U.S. beginning in the late nineteenth century! Adria L. Imada investigates the role of hula in the American colonization of Hawai'i. Inhaltsverzeichnis Note on Language ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Aloha America 1 1. Lady Jane at the Boathouse: The Intercultural World of Hula 29 2. Modern Desires and Counter-Colonial Tactics: Gender, Performance, and the Erotics of Empire 59 3. Impresarios on the Midway: World's Fairs and Colonial Politics 103 4. "Hula Queens" and "Cinderella": Imagined Intimacy in the Empire 153 5. The Troupes Meet the Troops: Imperial Hospitality and Military Photography in the Pacific Theater 213 Epilogue. New Hula Movements 255 Chronology. Hawai'i Exhibits at International Expositions, 1894-1915 269 Abbreviations of Collections, Libraries, and Archives 271 Notes 273 Glossary 337 Bibliography 339 Index 357...

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Authors Adria L Imada, Adria L. Imada
Publisher Duke University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 09.07.2012
 
EAN 9780822352075
ISBN 978-0-8223-5207-5
No. of pages 392
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Music > Organology
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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