Hawaiian-Bluegrass: The Unlikely Connections Between Two Genres

This week I learned a lot about music and the different genres. The first genre I learned about was Motown. The Motown Sound is a style of soul music with original characteristics, including tambourine, drums, bass instrumentation, a distinctive melodical and chord structure, and a "call and response" singing style originating in gospel. The second genre I leaned about was Blues. Blues is a genre originated by African Americans in the South of the United States around the late 19th century. This genre emerged from roots in African musical traditions. Blues included spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, etc. The third genre, which I found most interesting and amusing was Psychedelic. Psychedelic music was influenced by the 1960s psychedelic culture, a subculture of people who used drugs such as LSD, mushrooms and DMT to experience visual and auditory hallucinations and altered states of

“An introduction to Samoan music is an introduction to the Samoan people as a whole (Moyle, p1).” Music had a strong, complimentary presence in traditional Samoan life, and is still a powerful presence today. Although, now, the traditional means for Samoan music has evolved along with it. Traditionally, music was the medium used to tell stories, depict lifestyles, emit warning signals, and to transmit many other things for tribes inhabiting the island. Without the need for a powerful method to transfer signals with the aid of technology; modern day Samoan music has modernized and changed to focus more on the storytelling during a performance. Traditional music in Samoa was a product derived from how they lived their everyday life while blending their voices into song,

For this music analysis project, I would like to discuss the oral nature of the legacy of Appalachian music. I would like to complete this project to bring attention to the amazing history of Appalachian music and the distinct ways it lives on. I plan to use research to study the different manners in which Appalachian music has continued to survive throughout the years despite the general modernization of the world.

The flower leis are especially the most alluring things about the Hawaiian culture. Flower leis are one of Hawaiian culture's most recognizable customs. In Hawaiian culture the lei should be offered graciously with a kiss and removed in private. It is often considered rude if you remove it in front of the person who gave it to you. The Hawaiian language adds to the one of the interesting things in this culture. It is comprised of five vowels and eight consonants, this is the shortest alphabet in the world. Lastly, the hula. It is comprised of swaying the hips, graceful hands, and colorful costumes. It has two major forms the ancient, and the

To continue, Identity may also be shaped by the music families listen to. Music is a vivid display of culture and the things its people enjoy. The Center of the American Folklife center researchers and tries to preserve multiple genres of music. For example, “Bluegrass, Alabama gospel, and Wisconsin polka are three other music genres

Around the world, there are many Indigenous groups having practiced their own traditional cultures. Through the history and following globalisation, traditional cultures have gradually disappeared. For example, in Japan, there are Ainu people had established their own culture, but they were assimilated to Japanese culture because of the annexation to Japan in the mid-1800s. Therefore, until recently, they have used the Japanese language and been educated and lived as Japanese. However, there are many traditional cultures which have still practiced over the time. Those existing cultures may be more significant than those cultures that have disappeared. Particularly, Indigenous performing arts tend to be survived over the time and actively protected to preserve. This essay will argue that Indigenous dance and chant have had significant roles to Indigenous people in many aspects. Firstly, this essay will examine hula’s several roles among the Hawaiian culture and society in the past and current. Secondly, it will focus on the relationship between haka and the Maori’s mentality and spirituality over the time. Finally, it will investigate Ainu chant, yukar, and its particular changes of importance to the Ainu.

Music is an art that has united people all over the world for centuries and centuries. Evolving throughout the years, music is split up into many different genres. These genres have derived from diverse time periods and cultures throughout the years. Jazz and Country music both originated in the early 1900s, but have had lasting impacts on completely different cultures. The detailed elements of each piece are dissimilar, but are equally effective in providing entertainment for each audience.

"Hillbilly music,” “the high, lonesome sound,” and “old-time string band music” have all been used to describe bluegrass, though none of these terms is quite right.

This particular group did not perform any kahiko pieces, mainly performing modern hula and genres of hula stemming after the King Kalākaua’s Hawaiian Renaissance. Due to the lack of kahiko performance, there was no monophonic texture in the auditory portion of the performance. If anything, the one quality that alluded to the modern style of dance was the facial expressions of the dancers. With pleasant looks on their faces, it did not resemble the strictness of kahiko styled hula. The hula dancers did not use any instruments, instead, they relied on their portrayal of the text through their hand movements and gestures. They wore typical muʻumuʻu’s and wore their hair up, with local flora decorating

Hawaiian language, also known as Ōlelo Hawai‘I, is a Marquesic language related to other Oceanic languages of the Eastern Malayo-Polynesian group in the Austronesian language family. Hawaiian is a language with no known dialects, however, some linguists note that there is a slight distinction between Hawaiian spoken throughout the islands, and Hawaiian spoken at the university. The language is named, “Hawaiian,” after the group of islands where it was first developed and recognized; Hawaii is a volcanic archipelago located in the Central Pacific, hence the language relation to other Oceanic languages (UCLA, Language Materials Project). Previous to the influence of the United States, there were a reported 400,000 to 800,000 Native Hawaiian speakers living in Hawaii.

As early as 400 CE the Polynesian people from the Marquesas Islands set sail in their double hulled canoes to find new land because of their poor agriculture. The Polynesians (who were very skilled farmers and fisherman) from the marquesas island were wanting to discover new land so this discovery of the big island in Hawaii was definitely intentional (Hawaii-guide, 2004).Hawaii is famous for a dance called the hula and the musical instrument called the ukulele. The ukulele was used in the dance hula this is still relevant today because lots of people still use this dance and the musical instrument ukulele. Hawaii is approximately 1929km north east of Australia and 3760km north west of the Marquesas islands where the Hawaiian people came from.

For my paper, I will explore Native American music with a focus on the Native American flute from the perspective of the Cheyenne and Lakota Tribes. The Native American flute is integral to songs that are meditative, spiritual, and healing. Ceremonial music is said to have originated from deities or respected individuals while different tribes have their own sacred songs. While there are public songs, most songs are ancient, sacred, meditative, express stories, and celebrate harvest times during varying seasons. Generally speaking, Native American music is highly percussive with drums and rattles, but also reliant on vocables.

History about the hawaiian culture and king kamehameha is that he brought peace to the hawaiian kingdom's. He won many battles between many different chiefs too. Overall kamehameha was a good chief. He was also the first person to rule all eight hawaiian islands.

My paper is going to be on the performance of the Royal Hawaiian Band. The Royal Hawaiian Band performed at Iolani Palace. This band is presented by the city and county of Honolulu Kirk Caldwell, Mayor, and The Honolulu City Council. They perform every Fridays in the afternoon and the best part is that it is free. I love how mostly everything is in the Hawaiian language especially when they speak.

Traditional music in Hawaii was not originally used for entertainment, but instead, for worship. It was not until the modern age, when Western influences began to emerge and tourists began to arrive, that the music was used as pleasure. The native music is primarily chanting accompanied by percussion. A Chant known as an oli, while a song or a piece is called a mele; there are two main types of meles. The mele oli is an unaccompanied chant sung by one person, while the mele hula is a chant which is complimented by dancing and percussion, and can be sung by multiple musicians. These songs (meles) were passed down hundreds of years through oral tradition, and Chanting in these meles can be characterized by their use of vibrato (small, rapid variations in pitch), as well as a deep vocal tone. In traditional Hawaiian culture, meles and olis