Ancient Hawaiian Music

Ancient Hawaiian Music PDF Author: Helen Heffron Roberts
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Book on the study of ancient Hawaiian music in the form of representative collection that was intended to be chanted. Also covers the sorting, translation and publication of the texts of chants without music, noting the distinction between the mele before the coming of the missionaries and the adoption of melody from the hymn-singing of the missionaries.

Ancient Hawaiian Music

Ancient Hawaiian Music PDF Author: Helen Heffron Roberts
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Book Description
Book on the study of ancient Hawaiian music in the form of representative collection that was intended to be chanted. Also covers the sorting, translation and publication of the texts of chants without music, noting the distinction between the mele before the coming of the missionaries and the adoption of melody from the hymn-singing of the missionaries.

Music of Ancient Hawaii

Music of Ancient Hawaii PDF Author: Dorothy M. Kahananui
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Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Ancient Hawaiian Music

Ancient Hawaiian Music PDF Author: Helen Heffron Roberts
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 397

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Hawaiian Music and Musicians

Hawaiian Music and Musicians PDF Author: George S. Kanahele
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Here, after years of preparation, is the most ambitious book ever written about Hawaiian music - its roots, popularity and influences in the world, leading personalities and groups, organizations, songs, and publications. The complete story is here, from ancient chants to the flowering of the musical renaissance in Hawaii nei. Nearly 200 illustrations add to the book's appeal for Hawaiian music fans and serious students. Many rare photographs of historical interest are among the illustrations featuring singers, chanters, dancers, and instrumentalists. Musical instruments are also featured in drawings and photographs. Melody lines, chants, and rhythm patterns are illustrated by music notation. The book is organized like an encyclopedia, with about 200 entries in alphabetical order. They include biographies of musicians from every period of Hawaiian musical history - from Henry Berger, David Kalakaua, Queen Lili'uokalani, and others of her time, to the great names of the first half of the twentieth century, and on to the performers and composers of today's Hawaiian renaissance. There are major articles on chant, slack key, steel guitar, 'ukulele, himeni, Hawaiian orchestras, falsetto, humor in Hawaiian music, radio, television, and the recording industry to name a few. Definitive essays tell the story of all ancient and modern musical instruments and the most loved and important songs of the last 150 years. Much of the material is new or original and fresh insights are brought to the more familiar topics. Some myths are dispelled, long-standing controversies discussed, if not settled. For instance, the book comes closer to answering the question "what is Hawaiian music?" than anything written so far. The work also contains and extensive annotated bibliography of works on Hawaiian music, and two discographies.

Hawaiian Music in Motion

Hawaiian Music in Motion PDF Author: James Revell Carr
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252096525
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Hawaiian Music in Motion explores the performance, reception, transmission, and adaptation of Hawaiian music on board ships and in the islands, revealing the ways both maritime commerce and imperial confrontation facilitated the circulation of popular music in the nineteenth century. James Revell Carr draws on journals and ships' logs to trace the circulation of Hawaiian song and dance worldwide as Hawaiians served aboard American and European ships. He also examines important issues like American minstrelsy in Hawaii and the ways Hawaiians achieved their own ends by capitalizing on Americans' conflicting expectations and fraught discourse around hula and other musical practices.

Pele's Tears

Pele's Tears PDF Author: Shirley Sebree
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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He mele aloha

He mele aloha PDF Author: Vicky Hollinger
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ISBN: 9780974256405
Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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The Show Makers

The Show Makers PDF Author: Lawrence Thelen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134001363
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Strains of Change

Strains of Change PDF Author: Elizabeth Tatar
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Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Hawaiian Son

Hawaiian Son PDF Author: James D. Houston
Publisher: Hawaiian Legacy Foundation
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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One of Hawaii's "living treasures" is the subject of this biography, Hawaiian Son: The Life and Music of Eddie Kamae. It celebrates the personal journey of an extraordinary musician and pioneering filmmaker, Eddie Kamae. The book was written by award-winning author James D. Houston (1933-2009) in close collaboration with Kamae, and was designed by Barbara Pope of Honolulu-based 'Ai Pohaku Press. The 260-page book includes more than 60 historical photographs, drawings and album covers that help to chart the high points of an influential career that has spanned more than half a century. As a young man in the late 1940s, Kamae developed a jazz picking style that forever changed the status of the ukulele. He became its reigning virtuoso. For 20 years the legendary band he founded with Gabby Pahinui, The Sons of Hawaii, played a leading role in the Hawaiian cultural renaissance. By the mid 1970s Kamae himself had become a folk-hero, known for his instrumental genius and for a vigorous singing style that carries the spirit of an ancient vocal tradition into the 21st century. During the 1980s, while continuing to perform, arrange, and lead the band, Kamae launched a second career as a filmmaker, once again proving to be a cultural pioneer. In documentaries such as Listen to the Forest and Words, Earth & Aloha he found a filmic voice that speaks from deep within his own island world. Kamae's personal journey is measured by the many teachers Kamae, now 85, has met along the way, from Mary Kawena Pukui and Pilahi Paki, to 'Iolani Luahine, San Li'a Kalainaina, and "Papa" Henry Auwae. Dancers and singers, storytellers, healers, and elders have guided him in his long quest to find the sources of a rich tradition and thus to find himself.