Listen But Don't Ask Question: Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Across the Transpacific

by Kevin Fellezs

Played 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 played on a non-Hawaiian instrument and influenced by Mexican cowboy culture, it is widely considered to be a truly Hawaiian tradition grounded in Hawaiian aesthetics and cultural values. In Listen but Don't Ask Question Kevin Fellezs examines Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478005998
• ISBN13: 9781478005995
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"