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Recent news related to Kīkā Kila:

3.10.18: Kīkā Kila just received from IASPM-US the Woody Guthrie Award for the most outstanding book on popular music!  

11.12.17: The American Musicological Society just announced that Kīkā Kila
has won the 2017 Music in American Culture Award!

​9.13.17: The Western History Association just announced that Kīkā Kila has won the 2017 Sally and Ken Owens Award for Best Book on the History of the Pacific West!
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8.29.17:  The Association for Recorded Sound Collections just announced that Kīkā Kila has won the 2017 award for "Best Historical Research in Recorded Popular Music"!
 
4.9.17: The Organization of American Historians just announced that Kīkā Kila won the
​2017 Lawrence W. Levine Award for the "Best Book in American Cultural History"!
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​John Troutman is a museum curator, author, professor and musician.
 He was recently appointed to the position of Curator of American Music at the Smithsonian Institution's
​National Museum of American History.
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For information on Kīkā Kila, his book on the history of the Hawaiian Steel Guitar, click here
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

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