Guitar Culture In The Hawaiian Kingdom
Guitar Culture In The Hawaiian Kingdom
This chapter considers the introduction and history of the Spanish guitar within the political and cultural contexts of the Hawaiian Kingdom during the mid- to late-eighteenth century. It demonstrates the musical dynamism in Honolulu, in the Kamehameha Schools, and in other places in the Hawaiian Islands that prefigured the development of the Hawaiian steel guitar, and it contextualizes the emerging Hawaiian “guitar culture,” then, that Hawaiians deployed to resist American efforts to undermine the kingdom. It also features the tensions between Calvinist missionaries, foreign sailors, and Hawaiians over hula and other musical practices, including hula ku‘i, a form of Hawaiian musical expression promoted by King David Kalākaua and defined by the use of guitars, ‘ukuleles, taro patch fiddles, and other stringed instruments newly utilized in the Islands.
Keywords: Calvinist Missionaries, Honolulu, Hula, Spanish Guitar, Hawaiian Kingdom, Hula Ku‘i, ‘Ukulele, Taro Patch, Kamehameha School, David Kalākaua
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