Hawaiian Music in Motion explores the performance, reception,
transmission, and adaptation of Hawaiian music on board ships and in the
islands, revealing the ways both maritime commerce and imperial
confrontation facilitated the circulation of popular music in the
nineteenth century. James Revell Carr draws on journals and ships' logs
to trace the circulation of Hawaiian song and dance worldwide as
Hawaiians served aboard American and European ships. He also examines
important issues like American minstrelsy in Hawaii and the ways
Hawaiians achieved their own ends by capitalizing on Americans'
conflicting expectations and fraught discourse around hula and other
musical practices.