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How did Hawaiin and Polynesian culture come to dramatically alter American music, fashion and decor, as well as ideas about race, in fewer less than a century? It began with mainland hula and musical performances in the late 19th century, rose dramatically as millions shipped to Hawaii during the Pacific War, then made big leap with the advent of low-cost air travel. By the end of the 1950s, mainlanders were hosting tiki parties, listening to exotica music, lazing on rattan furniture in Hawaiian shirts and, of course, surfing. The author describes how this cultural conquest came about and the people and events that led to it.

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"At last, someone takes Hawai’i seriously, combining a scholar’s eye and a fanatic’s devotion to showing how small islands in the middle of nowhere changed our world, making it a richer and better place."""" - Jerry Hopkins, author, The Hula, Romancing the East and No One Here Gets Out Alive."

At last, someone takes Hawai'i seriously, combining a scholar's eye and a fanatic's devotion to showing how small islands in the middle of nowhere changed our world, making it a richer and better place. -- Jerry Hopkins, author, The Hula, Romancing the East and No One Here Gets Out Alive.

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Geoff Alexander is the founder and director of the Academic Film Archive of North America, in San Jose, California, the first archive solely dedicated to the history, preservation, and scholarship of the classroom educational film.

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