Musc 351 - Week 8 19/09/17: Popular Music: - Broadly
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TobyChadwickMusc 351 – Week 8 19/09/17
Popular music: - Broadly
Understanding popular music in the pacific:
Movement of music and globalisation – if not transnational i.e. Samoa and NZ, Micronesia and US,
French Polynesia and France.
Local and global, local responses to music, i.e. Hawai’i with the ukulele
Institutions – like university, Governments, creative New Zealand, awards bodies
Technologies – flow of technology and tracking it, what type of technology and where from.
Genres
Ideologies – identities and forming them (use of empowerment)
Hawai'i was its own place in 1800s. it is not this remote island in the pacific
‘ukelele – 1878, small Portuguese guitar. Jumping flea – is related to the name, or the little fiddle
The ‘ukelele moved very fast between countries in the 1900
Steel guitar –
Hapa-haole – genre early 20th century – means half white. Became really fashionable in 40’s&50’s , it
was present in the 20’s. It puts Hawai’i in a negative light (with Hollywood and the gross
sexualisation of the hula) – Amy Stillman has a website on it. The very early hapa-haole music made
fun of the language. 40’s-70s era
