HAWAIIAN MUSIC AND MUSICIANS: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY

Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. Quarto. Off white and mustard yellow boards 9 1/2 inches x 7 3/4 inches. Top edge a little shelf-dusty,and some darkening (sunning?) to top edge of boards, but all in all, very tight and clean. 543 pp., including index. "...The book is organized like an encyclopedia, with about 200 entries in alphabetical order. They include biographies of musicians from every period of Hawaiian musical history -- from Henry Berger, David Kalakaua, Queen Lili'uokalani, and others of their time, to the great names of the first half of the twentieth century, and on to the performers and composers of today's Hawaiian renaissance..."

"There are major articles on chant, slack key, steel guitar, ukelele, himeni, Hawaiian orchestras, falsetto, humor in Hawaiian music, radio, television, and the recording industry...Much of the material is new or original...Some myths are dispelled, long-standing controversies discussed, if not settled..."

"..The work also contains an extensive bibliography of works on Hawaiian music, and two discographies." (from dustjacket flaps).