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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 20, 2011 3:13:10 GMT
Reading through the news, I stumbled across this article -- Couple Helps Preserve Hawaiian Culture Through Music (<-- click)It's interesting enough, but not really illuminating about the music of Hawai'i, a subject about which I know zip. The wikipedia article certainly gives insight into the richness of styles and influences of the music, but reading about music is distinct from hearing it. This video gives a teensy taste of what might be some of the real thing ~ Looking around on youtube, I wished I knew at least enough to start learning. I picked this because it was pretty, but is it authentic? Anyone here know about Hawaiian music??
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2011 11:06:03 GMT
This is so bizarre,one of those synchronicity moments... A dear friend of ours passed away a week or so ago. He had been in the Navy and spent some time in Hawaii. During his time there he became enamored of the native culture including the music. Over the years he amassed a huge,huge collection of it,including some by the artist R. Crumb. Whenever I went to visit him,he always played me some of his collection. It was my only real exposure to it. At the memorial service for him,his sister and daughter played some of his favorite Hawaiian music. It was hauntingly beautiful.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 20, 2011 15:56:28 GMT
Huh!!! I never knew that about him, nor that R.Crumb made some Hawaiian music. Kind of gives me some good shivers.
(I left a poem for him in the Chinese poetry thread. Unfortunately, I'm no poet.)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2011 22:32:02 GMT
The ukelele has become strangely popular in French pop music, due in big part to a winner of the 'French Idol' show a few years ago who used one regularly.
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Post by lola on Feb 22, 2011 1:38:13 GMT
Fun clips, bixa! That is some kind of falsetto singing, all right.
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