Title Voices from the canefields : folksongs from Japanese immigrant workers in Hawai'i / Franklin Odo.

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Description	1 online resource (1 volume)
Series	American musicspheres
	American musicspheres.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Japan to Hawai'i -- World of work -- Despair and defiance -- Love and lust -- Reflections -- A last hurrah -- Renaissance of the holehole bushi.
Summary	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 labour during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this book author Franklin Odo situates over two hundred of these songs, in translation, in a hitherto largely unexplored historical context.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Sugar workers -- Hawaii -- Songs and music.
	Immigrants -- Hawaii -- Songs and music.
	Japanese Americans -- Hawaii -- History.
	Folk songs, English -- Hawaii -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
	Songs and music.
Other Form:	Print version: Odo, Franklin. Voices from the canefields folksongs from Japanese immigrant workers in Hawai'i. New York : Oxford University Press, 2013 9780199813032 (DLC) 2012043762 (OCoLC)816655582
ISBN	9780199813049 (electronic bk.)
	0199813043 (electronic bk.)
	9780199345328 (ebook)
	0199345325 (ebook)
	9780199813032
	0199813035