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Canefield Songs: Holehole Bushi | PBS HAWAI‘I PRESENTS
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- In this film, Professor of Anthropology Christine Yano explains, “If we want to know something of what some of these womenʻs lives were like… we could do no better than to listen to their own words, as expressed through song.” The women that Professor Yano is referring to are Japanese immigrants who worked in Hawai‘i’s sugarcane fields in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through their canefield songs, or holehole bushi, these women sang about their joys and sorrows of trying to start l...
- Display date:
- 24/02/2023
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- PBS Hawai'i Videos
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- PBS Hawai'i
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