Voices from the Canefields

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Voices from the Canefields
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9780199813032
ISBN-13 : 0199813035
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Book Synopsis Voices from the Canefields by : Franklin Odo

Book excerpt: Holehole bushi, folk songs of Japanese workers in Hawaii's plantations, describe the experiences of this particular group caught in the global movements of capital, empire, and labor during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this book author Franklin Odo situates over two hundred of these songs, in translation, in a hitherto largely unexplored historical context.


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