Front Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 These Little Instruments, of Which They Are So Fond -- Chapter 2 The Sound of Pa, Ko, Li -- Chapter 3 The National Instrument of Hawaii -- Chapter 4 Have You Seen the Bouncing Flea? -- Chapter 5 A Landscape Set to Music -- Chapter 6 A Craze of the Frisco Exposition -- Chapter 7 The Height of Its Popularity -- Chapter 8 Made of a New Gleaming Plastic Material -- Chapter 9 The Growing Underground Movement -- Appendix A: Chronological List of Early Hawaiian Luthiers -- Appendix B: Annotated Checklist of Selected 'Ukulele Methods and Songbooks, 1894-1920 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors.