The Friday Riff

This week we explore the connections between jazz and Hawaiian music. From the history of the electric guitar to the swinging sounds of Martin Denny’s jazz-tinged exotica, Hawaiian musical culture has nourished the mainland, and vice versa, for longer than you might expect. Helping us bring the spirit of aloha to the Friday Riff today will be our special guest, Dr. Revell Carr, scholar of many musics: American popular music, Hawaiian music, and maritime music, among others. Dr. Carr, an ethnomusicologist recentlly of UCSB and bound for UNC Greensboro, will discuss the history of Hawaiian music and it’s complex interactions with American pop culture, including jazz.

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