John W Troutman
Biographic Data
| ID | 179376 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John W Troutman |
| GIVEN NAMES | John W |
| FAMILY NAME | Troutman |
| SIGNATURE | TROUTMAN J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0636-6690 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rez Metal
Reviewed by: Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo Nation Metal Scene by Ashkan Soltani Stone and Natale E. Zappia John W. Troutman (bio) Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo Nation Metal Scene by Ashkan Soltani Stone and Natale E. Zappia University of Nebraska Press, 2020 SEVERAL RECENT BOOKS have chronicled contemporary, local, and transnational Indigenous music scenes. Kyle T. Mays's Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North A…
Folk Music in Overdrive
While recent books from Patrick Huber, Diane Pecknold, and others have rendered great insight into the relationships between labor, gender, race, and the crafting of mid-twentieth-century southern vernacular musical genres, critical scholarship on the tradition known as “bluegrass” remains relatively sparse. This omission is surprising, given the genre’s national profile, elevated through its rapid post-World War II dissemination beyond the holle…
Surfing About Music
Book Review| October 01 2018 Surfing About Music Surfing About Music. Timothy J. Cooley. 2014. Berkeley: University of California Press. xvii, 218 pp., photographs, online examples, notes, bibliography, discography, filmography, index. Paper, $29.95. John W. Troutman John W. Troutman Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2018) 62 (3): 505–507. https…
The Steel Heard ‘Round the World
In the late nineteenth century, Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) physically modified guitars and created a new technique for playing them. In the years that followed, hundreds of Hawaiian troupes, engaging new entertainment circuits that crisscrossed the globe, introduced the world to their “Hawaiian steel guitar,” from Shanghai to London, Kolkata to New Orleans. While performing Hawaiian mele , or songs, with their instrument, they demonstrated n…
Kika Kila
Since the nineteenth century, the distinct tones of kika 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 Mississ…
Recognition Odysseys
Book Review| January 01 2016 Recognition Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities Recognition Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities. By Brian Klopotek. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. 408 pp. Photos and maps. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). John W. Troutman John W. Troutman Search for other works by this auth…
James Revell Carr. Hawaiian Music in Motion
The previous decade has witnessed a surge of exceptional work in Hawaiian history, prompting ever-greater numbers of U.S. historians and American Studies scholars to take note. From Noenoe K. Silva’s 2004 exegesis of Hawaiian-language documents in Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism to Adria L. Imada’s Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire (2012), this body of scholarship features, among other attribu…
Indian Play
Journal Article Indian Play: Indigenous Identities at Bacone College Get access By Lisa K. Neuman. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013. xxiv, 376 pp. $50.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 238–239, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw112 Published: 01 June 2016
To Win the Indian Heart
The last twenty years have witnessed a proliferation of scholarship on the history of American Indian institutional education. The field is enriched by macrolevel education policy studies, microhistories of individual schools, and tribal-specific studies on the impact of state- or missionary-sponsored educational initiatives. In To Win the Indian Heart Melissa D. Parkhurst provides the first comprehensive overview of one school’s musical complex,…
National Jukebox
Journal Article National Jukebox: Historical Recordings from the Library of CongressLift Every Voice: Music in American Life Get access National Jukebox: Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress,http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/. Created and maintained by the Library of Congress. Reviewed July–Aug. 2012.Lift Every Voice: Music in American Life,http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/music/index.html. Created and maintained by the Univers…
Indian Blues
tions were fast becoming generic, pan-tribal per formances that reflected a decreasing vitality and diversity of songs and dances. Any powwow sing er or dancer would immediately reject his analysis on the simple basis that tribally specific?and clan or family-specific?songs have vastly multiplied over the past century, just as intertribal powwow culture has proliferated to an extraordinary and quite heterogeneous degree. Yet equally profound in g…
Powwow
Powwow Get access Powwow. Edited by Ellis Clyde Lassiter Luke Eric Dunham Gary H.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xv + 309 pp. Notes, bibliographies, index. $45.00, £15.50, paper.) John W. Troutman John W. Troutman University of Louisiana at Lafayette Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 1, Spring 2007, Pages 72–73, https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/38.1.7…
Shades of Hiawatha
Book Review| January 01 2007 Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930 Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930. By Alan Trachtenberg. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. xxv + 369 pp., preface, introduction, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00 cloth.) John W. Troutman John W. Troutman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 197–199. https://do…
The Overlord of the Savage World
The Overlord of the Savage World
Indian Blues
tions were fast becoming generic, pan-tribal per formances that reflected a decreasing vitality and diversity of songs and dances. Any powwow sing er or dancer would immediately reject his analysis on the simple basis that tribally specific?and clan or family-specific?songs have vastly multiplied over the past century, just as intertribal powwow culture has proliferated to an extraordinary and quite heterogeneous degree. Yet equally profound in g…
The Overlord of the Savage World
Powwow
Powwow Get access Powwow. Edited by Ellis Clyde Lassiter Luke Eric Dunham Gary H.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xv + 309 pp. Notes, bibliographies, index. $45.00, £15.50, paper.) John W. Troutman John W. Troutman University of Louisiana at Lafayette Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 1, Spring 2007, Pages 72–73, https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/38.1.7…
Shades of Hiawatha
Book Review| January 01 2007 Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930 Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930. By Alan Trachtenberg. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. xxv + 369 pp., preface, introduction, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00 cloth.) John W. Troutman John W. Troutman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 197–199. https://do…
Indian Blues
tions were fast becoming generic, pan-tribal per formances that reflected a decreasing vitality and diversity of songs and dances. Any powwow sing er or dancer would immediately reject his analysis on the simple basis that tribally specific?and clan or family-specific?songs have vastly multiplied over the past century, just as intertribal powwow culture has proliferated to an extraordinary and quite heterogeneous degree. Yet equally profound in g…
National Jukebox
Journal Article National Jukebox: Historical Recordings from the Library of CongressLift Every Voice: Music in American Life Get access National Jukebox: Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress,http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/. Created and maintained by the Library of Congress. Reviewed July–Aug. 2012.Lift Every Voice: Music in American Life,http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/music/index.html. Created and maintained by the Univers…
Kika Kila
Since the nineteenth century, the distinct tones of kika 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 Mississ…
Recognition Odysseys
Book Review| January 01 2016 Recognition Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities Recognition Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities. By Brian Klopotek. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. 408 pp. Photos and maps. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). John W. Troutman John W. Troutman Search for other works by this auth…
James Revell Carr. Hawaiian Music in Motion
The previous decade has witnessed a surge of exceptional work in Hawaiian history, prompting ever-greater numbers of U.S. historians and American Studies scholars to take note. From Noenoe K. Silva’s 2004 exegesis of Hawaiian-language documents in Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism to Adria L. Imada’s Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire (2012), this body of scholarship features, among other attribu…
Indian Play
Journal Article Indian Play: Indigenous Identities at Bacone College Get access By Lisa K. Neuman. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013. xxiv, 376 pp. $50.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 238–239, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw112 Published: 01 June 2016
To Win the Indian Heart
The last twenty years have witnessed a proliferation of scholarship on the history of American Indian institutional education. The field is enriched by macrolevel education policy studies, microhistories of individual schools, and tribal-specific studies on the impact of state- or missionary-sponsored educational initiatives. In To Win the Indian Heart Melissa D. Parkhurst provides the first comprehensive overview of one school’s musical complex,…
The Steel Heard ‘Round the World
In the late nineteenth century, Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) physically modified guitars and created a new technique for playing them. In the years that followed, hundreds of Hawaiian troupes, engaging new entertainment circuits that crisscrossed the globe, introduced the world to their “Hawaiian steel guitar,” from Shanghai to London, Kolkata to New Orleans. While performing Hawaiian mele , or songs, with their instrument, they demonstrated n…
Surfing About Music
Book Review| October 01 2018 Surfing About Music Surfing About Music. Timothy J. Cooley. 2014. Berkeley: University of California Press. xvii, 218 pp., photographs, online examples, notes, bibliography, discography, filmography, index. Paper, $29.95. John W. Troutman John W. Troutman Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2018) 62 (3): 505–507. https…
Folk Music in Overdrive
While recent books from Patrick Huber, Diane Pecknold, and others have rendered great insight into the relationships between labor, gender, race, and the crafting of mid-twentieth-century southern vernacular musical genres, critical scholarship on the tradition known as “bluegrass” remains relatively sparse. This omission is surprising, given the genre’s national profile, elevated through its rapid post-World War II dissemination beyond the holle…
Rez Metal
Reviewed by: Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo Nation Metal Scene by Ashkan Soltani Stone and Natale E. Zappia John W. Troutman (bio) Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo Nation Metal Scene by Ashkan Soltani Stone and Natale E. Zappia University of Nebraska Press, 2020 SEVERAL RECENT BOOKS have chronicled contemporary, local, and transnational Indigenous music scenes. Kyle T. Mays's Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North A…
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