MUS 130A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pahu, Falsetto, Vibrato
27 Aug 2016
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Song types (prayers for the gods, genealogical chants, chant sto honor people, love songs) a. ii. American popular music: song and vocal style, chants- popular hawaiian songs, use of vocal vibrato b. i. Chants+ popular hawaiian songs: use of falsetto c. i. Old chants+ popular hawaiian and tourist songs: musical instruments, 19th-20th century, ukalele, hi"lawe, relationship to land, family, and heritage a. i. Sacred to secular to entertainment: popular songs styles, use of english language songs c. i. Takes away from hawaiian language: ukele d. i. Now it is everywhere with many new styles: hawaiian cultural renaissance, 1960s-1970s a. i. Israel was born into a political time and became and activist with his music. Mana is the spiritual energy that our get. He gets his from the elements: heritage and identity b. i. Worry of a heritage lost: over the rainbow, fuses the sounds of the original songs and hawaiian culture, ukalele and vocal ornamentations represent hawaiian heritage and identity c.
