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Hawaiian Music
Ideas and interest in the music and dance of Hawaii, on my part, extend largely from the fact that my mother has always loved it and her reasons for it was the fact that she grew up around it. My grandfather, her father, used to give lessons on playing the Hawaiian guitar. Ove ....
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.... while the men are also able to reach high notes otherwise considered difficult by most men in other areas of the world.
The main context of Hawaiian music has, as previously stated, most often been used as a form of worship and to celebrate their chieftains. Nowadays, it is used for anything from folk performances to festivals and even contests. In short, it is mainly used as a sort of pleasure.
The history of Hawaiian music is a rich and beautiful one but also a savage and bloody one. In the early centuries of Hawaii, human sacrifice to keep Pele, their volcano god ....
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