New PDF release: Kika Kila: How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound

By John W. Troutman

ISBN-10: 1469627922

ISBN-13: 9781469627922

Since the 19th century, the specific tones of k&299;k&257; kila, the Hawaiian metal guitar, have outlined the island sound. right here historian and metal guitarist John W. Troutman bargains the instrument's definitive heritage, from its discovery by way of a tender Hawaiian royalist named Joseph Kekuku to its progressive impression on American and international tune. in the course of the early 20th century, Hawaiian musicians traveled the globe, from tent indicates within the Mississippi Delta, the place they formed the hot sounds of kingdom and the blues, to regal theaters and vaudeville phases in long island, Berlin, Kolkata, and past. within the procedure, Hawaiian guitarists recast the function of the guitar in glossy lifestyles. yet as Troutman explains, via the Seventies the instrument's include and adoption in another country additionally labored to problem its cultural legitimacy within the eyes of a brand new iteration of Hawaiian musicians. subsequently, the indigenous device approximately disappeared in its homeland.

Using wealthy musical and old assets, together with interviews with musicians and their descendants, Troutman presents the whole tale of ways this local Hawaiian software reworked not just American song however the sounds of recent tune during the world.

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