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Called “natural-born musicians,” Hawaiians were considered critical to military success.19
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Hawaiians' authenticity as an autochthonous people was and is often tied to their relationship to land and ocean.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Military personnel came to the islands, instead of Hawaiians going to the continent to entertain as they had in previous decades.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Hawaiian women thus bore the responsibility of reproducing national knowledge
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
“Honolulu Hula Sale”
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
installing a discourse of Hawaiian cultural participation in everyday militarized life.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Hawai‘i is a decidedly middlebrow,