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Colloquium: "Kika Kila: Hawaiian Guitars and Steel Bars in the Era of the Overthrow" - John W. Troutman

Event Start: 
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: 
701C Dodge Hall, Center for Ethnomusicology

The Center for Ethnomusicology Spring Colloquium Series Presents:

Kika Kila: Hawaiian Guitars and Steel Bars in the Era of the Overthrow
a talk by John W. Troutman
(Assistant Prof. of U.S., Cultural, Public,&American Indian History,  Univ. of Louisiana, Lafayette)
Thursday, February 2, 2012
12:00 – 2:00 pm
Center for Ethnomusicology
Dodge Hall 701 C

Free and open to the public.

Soon after the illegal overthrow of Queen Lili'oukalani's government and U.S. annexation of Hawaii in 1898, Joe Kekuku and other Native Hawaiian guitarists embarked upon a series of transcontinental journeys that continue to ripple and resonate. This presentation will explore the origins of the Hawaiian (steel) guitar and situate its development within both the proliferation of a rich guitar culture in the islands, and within the accompanying political turmoil that led to and followed the overthrow of Ka?naka Maoli rule in the Hawaiian islands.
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John W. Troutman is Assistant Profesor of History, University of Louisiana, Lafayette. He received his master’s degree in American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona, and his doctorate in history from the University of Texas at Austin. His research and teaching interests include multiple facets of American Indian history as well as studies of race, culture, and music in the United States in the twentieth century. Before his appointment as assistant professor at UL Lafayette, he was the 2006-2007 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Americas in Middletown, Connecticut. Prior to that, he served as Assistant Director of the Newberry Library’s D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History in Chicago. His first book, Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1890-1934, was published in the spring of 2009 by the University of Oklahoma Press. He has published articles and book reviews in numerous journals, including Ethnohistory, Western Historical Quarterly, Louisiana History Journal and Museum Anthropology, and his essays are featured in a number of edited volumes and other works.

Event Contact: 
Center for Ethnomusicology Director (ao2110@columbia.edu)
Event Sponsors: 
The Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University
Free and open to the public

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