Aloha America
Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7308666 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cristina Bacchilega (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 853-853 |
| Publication date | 2013-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jat422 |
| OpenAlex | W2334229137 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Making complex arguments about the hula in the context of U.S. imperialism, Adria L. Imada utilizes archival and ethnographic research to explore the hula “as an embodied form of history” (p. 32). The arguments are successfully organized around different sites of performance: King Kalākaua's court in the 1880s; North American and European touring circuits, starting in 1892 just before the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy; U.S. world's fairs before and after the annexation of Hawaii as a U.S. territory in 1900; American nightclubs and showrooms, especially the Hawaiian Room at the Lexington Hotel in New York City, in the late 1930s; and the luaus or feasts produced by the United Service Organization for American servicemen on the islands during World War II. In the epilogue, an interview with Victoria Holt Takamine and information about ‘Īlio‘ulaokalani (the activist coalition of hula schools started in 1997) bring home the book's central point: the hula has been commodified, but hula people have produced alternative knowledge and disrupted imperialist, militaristic projects
Ancient history · Annexation · Archaeology · Commodification · Context (archaeology · Economy · Empire · Ethnography · Media studies · Militarism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Sports and Literature · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |