Polynesian Music

The presence of Polynesians on the U.S. continent is tied in with historical and cultural trajectories of colonization. The Hawaiian Islands were annexed as a territory in 1898 and attained statehood in 1959. Following decades of international rivalry, an administrative partitioning of the Samoan archipelago brought American Samoa under U.S. jurisdiction in 1899; Western Samoa attained independence in 1962. Because kin ties override political boundaries, American Samoa has served...