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SUMMARY:Reggae Relations: Black and Indigenous Confluences in Hawaii
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DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Sunaina Keonaona Kale (Kanaka Maoli)\nUC President’s
	 Postdoctoral Fellow\,\nDepartment of Native American Studies at UC Davis\
	n\nReggae has become so normalized in Hawai‘i that it is often associated 
	with local or Native Hawaiian people instead of Black people. Simultaneous
	ly\, reggae is often not considered Hawaiian music because it does not sou
	nd “Native Hawaiian enough.” Reggae in Hawai‘i thus does not fit easily in
	to the frameworks of authenticity and appropriation\, which are often used
	 with Indigenous and Black musics but have limitations. Indigenous recipro
	cal relationality is one way to look beyond those limitations: relationali
	ty keeps people radically accountable while leaving room for creativity\, 
	complexity\, and futurity. I argue that Blackness is mostly invisible in r
	eggae in Hawai‘i because Black people are not considered “fully local” the
	re. Despite this\, there have always been examples of good relations betwe
	en Native Hawaiian and Black people in the scene. I exemplify my argument 
	using general trends in Hawai‘i’s music industry and the career of a Black
	 Jamaican reggae artist who has been active in Hawai‘i since around 1980.\
	n\nSunaina Keonaona Kale (Kanaka Maoli) is a UC President’s Postdoctoral F
	ellow in the Department of Native American Studies at UC Davis. She holds 
	a PhD in ethnomusicology from UC Santa Barbara. Her current book project o
	n reggae in Hawai'i focuses on Indigenous and Black relationality and form
	ations of Kanaka Maoli\, local\, and global identities in the music. Her o
	ther research interests include the intersections of food sovereignty and 
	music in Hawai’i. She is a former Charles Eastman Fellow at Dartmouth Coll
	ege (2020–2022) and received the Robert Walser and Susan McClary Fellowshi
	p from the Society for American Music (2019).\n\nPart of the Nazir Ali Jai
	razbhoy Colloquium Series\, this event is sponsored by The UCLA Herb Alper
	t School of Music Department of Ethnomusicology\, with support from the De
	an of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.\n\nEvent Website: https://scho
	olofmusic.ucla.edu/event/reggae-relations-black-and-indigenous-confluences
	-in-hawaii/\n\nSource: https://community.ucla.edu/event/3dc8ecf6-4a22-4195
	-a5e7-63398763abf7
LOCATION:Music Library Seminar Room\, Schoenberg Music Building
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