{"product_id":"listen-but-don-t-ask-question-hawaiian-slack-key-guitar-across-the-transpacific","title":"Listen but Don′t Ask Question Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar across the TransPacific","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePerformed on an acoustic steel-string guitar with open tunings and a finger-picking technique, Hawaiian slack key guitar music emerged in the mid-nineteenth century. Though performed on a non-Hawaiian instrument, it is widely considered to be an authentic Hawaiian tradition grounded in Hawaiian aesthetics and cultural values. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eListen But Don’t Ask Question\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Kevin Fellezs listens to Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) and non-Hawaiian slack key guitarists in Hawai‘i, California, and Japan, attentive to the ways in which notions of Kanaka Maoli belonging and authenticity are negotiated and articulated in all three locations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn Hawai‘i, slack key guitar functions as a sign of Kanaka Maoli cultural renewal, resilience, and resistance in the face of appropriation and occupation, while in Japan it nurtures a merged Japanese-Hawaiian artistic and cultural sensibility. For diasporic Hawaiians in California, it provides a way to claim Hawaiian identity. By demonstrating how slack key guitar is a site for the articulation of Hawaiian values, Fellezs illuminates how slack key guitarists are reconfiguring notions of Hawaiian belonging, aesthetics, and politics throughout the transPacific. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Softcover","offer_id":42557186212006,"sku":"","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0465\/5765\/9302\/products\/978-1-4780-0671-8_pr.jpg?v=1649372896","url":"https:\/\/na-mea-hawai-i.myshopify.com\/products\/listen-but-don-t-ask-question-hawaiian-slack-key-guitar-across-the-transpacific","provider":"Hawaiian Council dba Nā Mea Hawaiʻi","version":"1.0","type":"link"}