Re: Hula Citation

At 10:01 AM 3/30/99 -0500, Daniel M Green wrote:
>
>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

I've known Dr. Glace since the 1960s and have debated him publicly on these
questions frequently. In 1993 at the Conference of Geographical
Hermeneutics of Ethnomusicology at Milhouse Junior College in Spit Valley,
Arkansas we specifically took up the question of the grass skirt. I turned
the tables on him, by coming to the session wearing one myself. I am also a
rather proficient ukelele player and demonstrated in fact how hula dancing
was indeed a counterhegemonic performative act that subverted the
intentions of the imperialists. I danced and sang the radical folk song
from Oahu titled "Leeluawakihawi", which in the native language means
"Stick a lobster in the white man's underwear when he is asleep." In
general it is necessary to dig deeper into the postcolonial discourse, as
Gayatri Spivak has made clear.


Louis Proyect

(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)