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Post #644943 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Jul 20, 2012 4:43 PM

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Indeed. The popularity of "Hawaiian" music was actually THE first manifestation of Polynesian Pop (NOT Tiki Pop) on the mainland, beginning in the late 1800s/early 1900s....

...and culminating in the Hawaiian music craze of the 1920s and 30s, which even reached Europe.

http://www.gansz.org/David/Guitars/Hawaiian/Hawaiian6.htm