Hawaii: Transnational Hula As Colonial Culture


Hawaii: Transnational Hula As Colonial Culture Adria L. Imadaa, 2011   During what was perhaps the first transnational hula tour of North America and Europe between 1892 and 1896, hula performers received sustained attention during a critical period when Hawai‘i's political status and proposed annexation by the US was a topic of national and international debate. Given Hawai‘i's subordinate economic and political status even prior to formal colonisation in 1898, hula operated as a form of...

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