Re: Hula Citation

Okay, I give, and my sides are starting to hurt.  Btw, in all seriousness,
I should add that I haven't followed this discussion that closely, but I
disagree with your position.  I believe strongly in complete academic
freedom, do not look down my nose at anyone else's work, and do not think
WSN should be a venue for personal attacks.  So, sorry for taking up
anyone's time.  Please delete this message and let's get back to more
serious matters.  DMG

On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Louis Proyect wrote:

> 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)
>