The Art of Hawaii Sheet Music

The South Seas in the Tin Pan Alley Era
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-903511-04-0
Verlag: Kment Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 524 Seiten, Format (B × H): 297 mm x 320 mm, Gewicht: 3600 g

More than 1,500 sheet music covers from the Tin Pan Alley era on Hawaii music, as well as some on the South Seas in general, make this book the ultimate work on this subject. The cover art of the Hawaii sheet music in the period of the so-called Territorial Years of the Hawaiian Islands from 1900 to 1959 shows great variety. Similar, sometimes even seemingly the same, yet each cover unique in its own right, they show the diversity of artistic approaches to illustrating stereotypical images of the Hawaiian Islands and the South Seas.

This book is a contribution to the study of historical popular media. It allows comparison of the graphic styles and motifs of the covers of the early decades of the 20th century, when domestic music-making with upright pianos was still a central part of social life in the United States.

Hermann Mückler is a (visual) historian, cultural anthropologist and an avid collector of pop-culture items about the South Seas. He is a professor at the University of Vienna and has written and edited more than 30 books, most of them on South Seas topics. In this tome, most of his own Hawaii sheet music collection is shown, supplemented by some illustrations from other private collections from the USA, New Zealand and Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hermann, Mückler

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kunstethnologie, Musikethnologie

Über Autor(innen)

Hermann, Mückler
Hermann Mückler is a historian and cultural anthropologist with a regional focus on Oceania, Australia and the Pacific Rim. As a professor at the University of Vienna, he undertook several field studies on various Pacific islands, which were reflected in numerous articles and book publications. His interest in Hawaii was awakened by several study visits to the East-West Center in Honolulu in the 1990s and by extensive travels on the Hawaiian islands. He is the longtime president of the Anthropological Society in Vienna and of the Federation of Austrian-Foreign Bilateral Friendship Societies PaN, vice president of the German Society for Global History, founder of the Austrian-South Pacific Society and co-founder of the Institute for Comparative Architectural Research in Vienna. In particular, his preoccupation with historical pop culture media on the Pacific Islands and his decades of enthusiastic collecting led him to investigate the depiction of the South Pacific with its clichéd stereotypes in various pop cultural media types.

More information: www.hermann-mueckler.com
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