Hawaiian Music in Motion - Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels

James Revell Carr is an associate professor of ethnomusicology at University of North Carolina Greensboro.

About the author

James Revell Carr is an associate professor of ethnomusicology at University of North Carolina Greensboro.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: J. Revell Carr, James Revell Carr
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.11.2014
• EAN: 9780252038600
• ISBN: 978-0-252-03860-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Music in American Life (Hardco; Music in American Life
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous