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More than 1,500 illustrations of sheet music covers on Hawaiian music from the Tin Pan Alley era, as well as some on the South Pacific in general, make this book the ultimate work on the subject. The cover design of the Hawaiian sheet music in the period of the so-called Territorial Years of the Hawaiian Islands from 1900 to 1959 shows an extremely wide variety of graphic solutions for the representation of the classic South Seas clichés. Similar, sometimes even seemingly the same, each cover is nevertheless unique and shows the variety of artistic approaches to illustrating stereotypical images of the Hawaiian Islands and the South Seas.
This book is a contribution to historical popular media research. It makes it possible to compare the graphic styles and motifs of the covers of the first decades of the 20th century, when domestic music-making was still a central part of social life in the United States.
“… isn’t it always the same pictorial motifs that conjure up associations with the Hawaiian Islands? Palm trees, waves, beaches, rolling surf, subtropical vegetation, flower-circled hula dancing maidens, and the striking volcano silhouette of the Diamond Head with the famous Waikiki beach in the foreground? You can find all these aspects in the Hawaii sheet music, but you will quickly realize that no two images are exactly alike and that no two palm trees are identical! This book wants to be a reference work for a very special carrier medium.”
