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Author Odo, Franklin, author

Title Voices from the cane fields : folksongs from Japanese immigrant workers in Hawai'i / Franklin Odo
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Series American musicspheres
American musicspheres.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 6, 2014)
Subject Sugar workers -- Hawaii -- Songs and music
Immigrants -- Hawaii -- Songs and music
Japanese Americans -- Hawaii -- History
Folk songs, English -- Hawaii -- History and criticism
Folk songs, English
Immigrants
Japanese Americans
Sugar workers
Hawaii
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Songs and music
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199345328
0199345325