Hula Citation

Just FYI,

Have you read _Wind Up My Hula: Dress Imperialism in the Nineteenth
Century South Pacific_ by T.C.B. Glace (Duke UP, 1993)?  It might cause
you to rethink some of your suppositions, especially about the influence
of Austrian thinkers in the region.  DMG

On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Louis Proyect wrote:

> Noplace:
> >meaningful things.  Let's get back to meaningless predictions of war in
> >the next millennia, or Hawai'i's place in world accumulation patterns
> >since 2500 B.C.
> 
> Now wait a second here. I have launched an in-depth study of the role of
> the hula dance in the burgeoning trade routes in the period 1878-1883
> between Japan and California. My article on this will appear in the Journal
> of World Nearly Hegemonic Systems, published by Rattlesnake University in
> East Jesus, Nebraska. It is an extensively footnoted piece that focuses on
> the role of Queen Mulakkahebalani. She developed the so-called dirty hula
> dance, which was of such a strongly seductive nature that it disoriented
> the captains of various navies in their visits to the island. It turns out
> that many of these captains were strongly influenced by the Austrian
> neo-Marxist Franz Pushelbletz, who believed that the capitalist stage of
> development could only be accomplished by renouncing all forms of
> sensuality. Pushelbletz was widely read in the American navy in particular.
> He was a neo-Marxist in the sense that he was also strongly influenced by
> Cotton Mather, the New England puritan brimstone-and-hellfire preacher. The
> hula dance--so irrestibly sensuous--caused many of these neo-Marxist seamen
> to break with their formative ideology and become permanent citizens of the
> island, devoted to carnal pleasure rather than trade. Don Ho's famous
> ballad "Ekahookaleina Belidaa-Rapiini" is dedicated to them.
> 
> Louis Proyect
> (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
>