- Paperback: 1040 pages
- Publisher: Mutual Pub Co (September 14, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1566479673
- ISBN-13: 978-1566479677
This book chronicles Hawaiian music from its roots in ancient chants to
the flowering of the musical renaissance in Hawaii. It describes leading
personalities and groups, organizations, songs and publications, and
discusses the extraordinary popularity of Hawaiian music round the
world. There are biographies of musicians from every period of Hawaiian
musical history from Henry Berger, David Kalakaua, Queen Liliuokalani,
and others of their time, to the great names of the 20th century. There
are major articles on chant, slack key, steel guitar, ukulele, himeni,
falsetto, Hawaiian orchestras, humor in Hawaiian music, radio,
television, the recording industry, and more. Definitive essays tell the
story of all the ancient and modern musical instruments, and the most
loved and important songs of the last 150 years. Many rare photographs
of historical interest are among the illustrations featuring singers,
chanters, dancers.
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