Hawaiian Terminology
A Hawaiian term for the steel guitar
Kika Kila
"This book traces how a Native Hawaiian technology generated the modern sounds of American (and indeed, other) popular music, sounds that remain familiar and vital in the twenty-first century" (Troutman 2)
We could argue that the preceding sentence is Troutman's ________, or main argument, for this book.
thesis statement
This Hawaiian city was the only place deep-draft vessels could dock in the central northern Pacific
Honolulu
A number of theories, including the following, help explain the blossoming interest in this Spanish trade good:
1. The influx of American Indian and mestizo vaqueros hired by Kamehameha III in the 1830s to tend to cattle on the islands
2. When eighty or so Hawaiians traveled to Monterey, California, in 1818 to support the Argentinian Navy
3. When whaling crews and missionaries from New England began visiting the Hawaiian Islands in the 1820s
guitars
We can hear the steel guitar at the beginning of cartoons from this famous American media company
Warner Brothers
A Hawaiian term referring to native Hawaiians
kanaka
In the book's preface, Troutman recounts a story about this famous American blues musician
B.B. King
This area of Honolulu catered to foreign sailors, but Hawaiian people frequented the district as workers or patrons where "they directly experienced guitar-driven hit parades of new songs and styles from the Pacific Rim and beyond” (Troutman 16)
the waterfront entertainment district
By the mid-nineteenth century, wealthy Hawaiians staged guitar performances in their homes, mission-organized schools for their children, and this significant cultural space
church
Troutman argues that this aspect of guitars made them "one of the favored instruments of traveling minstrels in Europe, Latin America, and the United States" by the mid-nineteenth century.
portability
A Hawaiian term for foreigners; particularly for white, American settlers
haole
Troutman analyzes a 1910 video of this musician playing the steel guitar to kick off the book's introduction
Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone
In 1835, William Hooper of Boston arranged to lease plantation lands on Kauaʻi from Kamehameha III for this purpose
sugar cane cultivation
This term describes the network that brought entertainers from the continental U.S.--particularly those who ended up in San Francisco during the Gold Rush--to cities in the Pacific like Honolulu.
Pacific Entertainment Circuit
collections in the Hawaii State Archives suggest that during the late nineteenth century, _______ were the most photographed guitarists in the Islands
Native Hawaiian women
A Hawaiian term for the ruling class or nobility of the Hawaiian Kingdom
ali'i
In the introduction, Troutman recalls his personal experiences as a touring musician to emphasize this point about the steel guitar.
The steel guitar is an often heard, yet "poorly understood" instrument
In 1850, Kamehameha III banned Hawaiian emigration to California in response to this trend.
Hawaiians' "search of more equitable working conditions than the Islands’ increasingly dominant plantation economy afforded them" (Troutman 32)
“[I]nnovations wrought by Hawaiians in __________ contributed to the unique qualities of the styles in Hawaiian music as well as to the ascendancy of the guitar culture in the Islands” (Troutman 27)
open guitar tunings
This Hawaiian monarch composed over 100 songs, including "Aloha ʻOe” and “He Mele Lāhui Hawaiʻi,” the first anthem penned for the Hawaiian Kingdom
Liliʻuokalani
A Hawaiian term for the laboring class or "common people" of the Hawaiian Kingdom
maka'ainana
At the beginning of Chapter One, Troutman analyzes a historical account from Curtis Piehu Iaukea to set up this theme.
The importance of steel-stringed guitars: “This was not the first time that Hawaiians had seen guitars in the Islands...What differentiated these particular instruments was that they were strung with steel, not the gut typical for the standard, Spanish guitars built in the nineteenth century. Though string composition could seem easily a forgettable detail, it stood out in Iaukea’s memory…” (Troutman 11)
In 1883, this Hawaiian Monarch included over 260 varieties of hula performances in his coronation ceremony
David Kalākaua
This new hula genre was birthed in the 1880s and defined specifically by its incorporation of Western stringed instruments into the accompaniment of Hawaiian mele
hula ku'i
In 1887, Lorrin Thurston authored and forced Hawaii's monarch to sign this document. It resulted in extremely high poll taxes that disenfranchised most Hawaiians and replaced cabinet members with white settlers sympathetic to Thurston’s religious conservatism and goal of eventual U.S. annexation of the Islands.
"bayonet constitution"