Aims to determine whether there is a growing homogenization of the world's popular music, or whether there is a continuing and perhaps ever-increasing diversity of song styles and forms. Focuses on how the process of popular music production is perceived by local musicians and reflects upon theory.

Deals with politics of competing cultures and myths in a colonized nation. The author considers the transformation of Hawaiian culture focusing on the indigenous population rather than on the colonizers. She describes how Hawaii's established religious, social, political, and economic relationships have changed in the past 200 years.

Aims to determine whether there is a growing homogenization of the world's popular music, or whether there is a continuing and perhaps ever-increasing diversity of song styles and forms. Focuses on how the process of popular music production is perceived by local musicians and reflects upon theory.