Listen but Don't Ask Question - 9781478005995

Listen but Don't Ask QuestionHawaiian Slack Key Guitar Across the TransPacific\nAuthor(s): Kevin Fellezs\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9781478005995, 978-1478005995\nSynopsis\nPerformed 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 Listen But Dont Ask Question Kevin Fellezs listens to Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) and non-Hawaiian slack key guitarists in Hawaii, California, and Japan, attentive to the ways in which notions of Kanaka Maoli belonging and authenticity are negotiated and articulated in all three locations. In Hawaii, slack key guitar functions as a sign of Kanaka Maoli cultural renewal, resilience, and resistance in the fa.