ABSTRACT
The Kodak Hula Show-event, tourist site, product promotion, record albumserves as an example of the confluence between representation, consumption, photography, and identity. This souvenir album, with a beautiful color photograph of what must be the Kodak Hula Show on the front and specific instructions for performing a hula on the back, recorded in Hawaii according to the liner notes, documents a key component in a Hawaiian vacation-seeing a “hula show.” The cover captures the show in full swing, under swaying palm trees framed against a bright blue sky, complete with a few puffy white clouds. On what appears to be an impromptu stage-with a grass shack and a longboat canoe for a backdrop-musicians in bright Hawaiian dress play guitars for the stars of the show. Five women form one line of hula dancers, each wearing a full and flowing bright green “grass” skirt and two yellow flower leis that hang down past their waists.
