Record album covers emphasize the former, featuring the women of paradise clad in вЂnative cloth,вЂ™ peering out from palm fronds, sensually frolicking in the ocean tide. Western Judeo-Christian culture gives paradise two central meanings: the Garden of Eden and heaven. Reflected in such record album titles as вЂIsland Paradise,вЂ™ вЂthe Lure of Paradise,вЂ™ and вЂHawaiian Paradise,вЂ™ Hawaii has been represented as paradise on earth. Hawaii remains an important tourist destination, strategic military outpost, and вЂtropical paradiseвЂ™. Informing even native islandersвЂ™ conceptions of Hawaiian identity, these images fall under an ontological shadow. Contemporary efforts to re-establish вЂauthenticвЂ™ Hawaiian motifs in Hawaii, too, draw upon a concocted image (Halualani 2002). For decades the iconic Hula girl and her musical accompaniment have formed the foundation of a strongly appealing Hawaiian identity, making Hawaii instantly recognizable the world over. The Hawaiian record album formed an important stage of HawaiiвЂ™s construction as a conceptual resource, just as pineapple, sugar and battleships played important roles at earlier stages. Indeed, what became known worldwide as Hawaiian music still provides a soothing soundtrack for South Pacific holidays, backyard luau parties, or ironic late night lounging. Popular Hawaiian musicвЂ™s marriage of stereo technology and so-called authentic sounds produced a repertoire of songs, a musical identity, and an auditory brand asset, creating a potent force and a performative example in the sonic branding of Hawaiian paradise.

islands as an acoustic, as well as a tourist, paradise. Indeed, by constructing and capturing the temptingly tropical so-called вЂsoundsвЂ™ of Hawaii on the latest hi-fi recording equipment, the music industry offered up Hawaiian music as an achievement of modern technology, promoting these U.S. Hawaii-inspired music marketed via popular record albums, radio shows, and Hollywood film soundtracks aided HawaiiвЂ™s transformation in the popular imagination from a mysterious вЂprimitiveвЂ™ paradise into the 50th U.S. Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder, University of Exeter

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