The Definitive History Of Hawaii’s Japanese Music! <click cover to purchase>
One of our most popular
CDs.
We experienced an unprecedented phenomenon of record buying hysteria when Club Nisei was first released. We
could not keep them in stock! Hawaii’s Japanese music performed circa 1947 - 1950’s. These talented performers are
second generation Japanese Americans. They call themselves CLUB NISEI. The sons & daughters of migrant
workers…Americans of Japanese ancestry… born & raised in Hawaii. The Nisei changed the course of Hawaii’s politics
& economy forever… they in effect were the “bridge over troubled waters”. This is their music & their story
chronicled via 23 beautiful & unique songs with a total listening time of over 70 minutes, plus extensive
historical liner notes & rare photos. Club Nisei was the first Nisei orchestra to begin performing in the post
WWII era & one of only two Hawaiian-Japanese orchestras to ever record their music. This is the definitive history
of Hawaii’s Japanese music. An era long gone by… CLUB NISEI will transport you directly to the nightclubs &
theaters of Hawaii’s post WWII Japanese community. These songs will soon be haunting your memory…East meets
West…enticing you to the dance floor of long ago…intriguing, exotic, melancholy, & soothing.
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