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
