Franklin Odo

Voices from the Canefields

Folksongs from Japanese Immigrant Workers in Hawai'i

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Produktbeschreibung

Holehole bushi, folk songs of Japanese workers in Hawaii's plantations, describe the experiences of this particular group caught in the global movements of capital, empire, and labor during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780190274009
• ISBN-10: 019027400X
• Artikelnr.: 47864449

Autorenporträt

Franklin Odo was founding director of the Smithsonian Institution's Asian Pacific American Program and Acting Chief of the Asian Division at the Library of Congress. He was among the pioneering faculty involved in Asian American Studies at UCLA and taught Asian American history at the University of Hawai`i, UPenn, Hunter, Princeton, and Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
About the website
Chapter One: Japan to Hawai`i
Chapter Two: World of Work
Chapter Three: Despair and Defiance
Chapter Four: Love and Lust
Chapter Five: Reflections
Chapter Six: A Last Hurrah
Chapter Seven: Renaissance of the Holehole Bushi
Conclusion
Appendices
Harry Minoru Urata: An Appreciation
Glossary
Holehole Bushi Lyrics: Japanese
Holehole Bushi Lyrics: English
Other Songs and Poems: English
Bibliography