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Zusatztext [T]he single most comprehensive and in-depth study of the folk tradition of holehole bushi... an inspiring example of committed and caring research that makes possible a wealth of future work by those interested in honoring the details and complexity of human experience. Informationen zum Autor Franklin Odo was founding director of the Smithsonian Institution's Asian Pacific American Program and Acting Chief of the Asian Division at the Library of Congress. He was among the pioneering faculty involved in Asian American Studies at UCLA and taught Asian American history at the University of Hawai`i, UPenn, Hunter, Princeton, and Columbia. Klappentext Folk songs are short stories from the souls of common people. Some, like Mexican corridos or Scottish ballads reworked in the Appalachias, are stories of tragic or heroic episodes. Others, like the African American blues, reach from a difficult present back into slavery and forward into a troubled future. Japanese workers in Hawaii's plantations created their own versions, in form more akin to their traditional tanka or haiku poetry. These holehole bushi describe the experiences of one particular group caught in the global movements of capital, empire, and labor during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In Voices from the Canefields author Franklin Odo situates over two hundred of these songs, in translation, in a hitherto largely unexplored historical context. Zusammenfassung Holehole bushi, folk songs of Japanese workers in Hawaii's plantations, describe the experiences of this particular group caught in the global movements of capital, empire, and labor during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Introduction About the website Chapter One: Japan to Hawai`i Chapter Two: World of Work Chapter Three: Despair and Defiance Chapter Four: Love and Lust Chapter Five: Reflections Chapter Six: A Last Hurrah Chapter Seven: Renaissance of the Holehole Bushi Conclusion Appendices Harry Minoru Urata: An Appreciation Glossary Holehole Bushi Lyrics: Japanese Holehole Bushi Lyrics: English Other Songs and Poems: English Bibliography ...
