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wcerto
Ahonui
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 Posted - 07/22/2010 : 10:46:30 PM
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For me, it would be three people:
Eddie Kamae - for `ukulele, for his love of the mele, for his love for Hawaiian music, for his tireless work in documenting so much of valuable Hawaiian culture and mo`olelo.
Amy Ku`uleialoha Stillman - oh the things she knows... how to find out the history of the mele, to trace a mele's evolution, to document facts, to share her mana`o, her musical talents -- her first song-writing foray, she wins a Grammy, just so much knowledge in her head and I would love for some of it to spill over onto me
Mary Kawena Pukui -- to learn the `olelo. I know plenty of ways to learn how to speak Hawaiian, but since this is my fantasy list, might as well want to study with the lady who wrote the dictionary. And the lady who compiled `Olelo No`eau, and so much more.
I also thought about adding a kumu hula like Iolani Luahine or Aunty Maiki Lake or even Aunty Mapuana de Silva. But, aue, I am much too makule to be able to ever really learn to physically dance hula. I do however love to attempt it in my clumsy way, as much as my physical body condition will permit, but moreover, I love the scholarship of the whole hula experience...of delving into the language and the story behind the mele and then delivering a way to tell the story of the mele to those who listen to the song and watch the dance. That is true magic.
If you could have your pick of any teacher for slack key, for `ukulele, steel guitar, bass, voice, hula, anything related to Hawaiian music, who would it be and why?
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Me ke aloha
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keonepax
Aloha
Japan
32 Posts |
Posted - 07/23/2010 : 12:38:06 AM
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Ohta-san - for solo ukulele playing
Dennis Kamakahi - for songwriting and slack-key |
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RWD
`Olu`olu
USA
850 Posts |
Posted - 07/23/2010 : 01:13:12 AM
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sm80808
Lokahi
347 Posts |
Posted - 07/23/2010 : 03:21:49 AM
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For teaching, I have to give props to Duke.
He got all the little tricks to make the complicated stuff seem easier and he always shares all his knowledge and doesn't hold anything back.
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rendesvous1840
Ha`aha`a
USA
1055 Posts |
Posted - 07/23/2010 : 05:39:59 AM
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Slack key,language & songwriting - HRH Queen Lili`uokalani. I don't know an earlier name to put as a slack key player. But so much in language and music have changed, I would like to see what it was like in the earlier time. Her highness played 3 or 4 instruments, and was one of Hawai`i's finest composers.
"Begin at the beginning, proceed to the end, then stop."- Lewis Carroll.
I doubt I will ever reach the end, it keeps moving.
"I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way!" -Stymie
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"A master banjo player isn't the person who can pick the most notes.It's the person who can touch the most hearts." Patrick Costello |
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noeau
Ha`aha`a
USA
1105 Posts |
Posted - 07/23/2010 : 10:01:31 AM
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| George Kukila. Kauʻi Zuttermeister. |
No'eau, eia au he mea pa'ani wale nō. |
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thumbstruck
Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 07/24/2010 : 03:58:36 AM
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| Peter Medeiros, Led, Ozzie, and Duke were all great to hang out with. In Seattle we have quite a few good fonts of info. Keep yer ears and eyes open. |
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Claudia
Lokahi
USA
152 Posts |
Posted - 07/24/2010 : 10:09:26 AM
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| I already do study slack key with the two best kumu I could ever, ever want - and I am the luckiest girl in the world that they let me! : Keola Beamer and Ozzie Kotani. |
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slipry1
Ha`aha`a
USA
1511 Posts |
Posted - 07/28/2010 : 08:23:22 AM
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| Steel - Alan Akaka, without a doubt. If I could go back in time, Jules Ah See, Jerry Byrd, Barney Issacs. |
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sm80808
Lokahi
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Posted - 07/28/2010 : 08:51:28 AM
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Originally posted by slipry1
Steel - Alan Akaka, without a doubt.
I had a feeling you were going to say that. |
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slkho
`Olu`olu
740 Posts |
Posted - 07/29/2010 : 07:47:31 AM
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Ray Kane, enough said.
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hawaiianmusiclover06
`Olu`olu
USA
562 Posts |
Posted - 07/29/2010 : 2:41:16 PM
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I already have the two greatest 'ukulele teachers that I study under and they are: Herb Ohta, Jr. the son of Ohta-san, and Jody Kamisato.
Alana :) |
Aloha Kakou, maluhia a me aloha mau loa (Hello everyone, peace and love forever) |
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slipry1
Ha`aha`a
USA
1511 Posts |
Posted - 07/30/2010 : 07:38:05 AM
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Originally posted by sm80808
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Originally posted by slipry1
Steel - Alan Akaka, without a doubt.
I had a feeling you were going to say that.
Yep, but true, yeah? Not many steelers out there teaching now. When
I get my camera and Skype going, I'll try lessons that way until "I get back to Oahu in January. |
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sm80808
Lokahi
347 Posts |
Posted - 07/31/2010 : 01:04:14 AM
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Originally posted by slipry1
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Originally posted by sm80808
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Originally posted by slipry1
Steel - Alan Akaka, without a doubt.
I had a feeling you were going to say that.
Yep, but true, yeah? Not many steelers out there teaching now. When
I get my camera and Skype going, I'll try lessons that way until "I get back to Oahu in January.
I had seen some other guys teaching that way (for rock/jazz at least).... pretty cool. |
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da_joka
Lokahi
361 Posts |
Posted - 07/31/2010 : 8:21:40 PM
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| Leonard Kwan, Ozzie Kotani, and Peter Medeiros ... I wish I knew how fo play guitar UH time ... cuz fo shua I would have been in Peter's classes. |
If can, can. If no can, no can. |
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wcerto
Ahonui
USA
5052 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2010 : 02:30:58 AM
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Oh Joka, I know what you are saying about wishing you had the opportunity to study with Prof. Petah. One of my heroes, our own Dr. Amy Ku`uleialoha Stillman, is back in Hawai`i for the academic year at UH-Manoa. Can you imagine a student at UH-Manoa having opportunities of being taught by the likes of Puakea Nogelmeier, Peter Medeiros and Amy Stillman? And even back in the day Peter Moon and Ozzie Kotani. Ah.....to be young again. If I knew then the things I now WISH I had studied...oh, I would be in hog heaven. To me that is a luxury I wish I had availed myself of. Indeed, I wish I knew I would fall in love with H
AmSt 690 Research Seminar: Critical Genealogies of American Music
Amy K. Stillman
Course Description:Throughout the 20th century, both scholarship and commerce have shaped discourses of “American music” and “American musical life” in racially binary terms—namely, white and black. This seminar will conduct a critical investigation into constructions of music production, marketing, and consumption in the United States, through the lens of a racial politics of culture. To do so from a vantage point such as Hawai‘i invites opportunities to challenge dominant narratives about musical identity on a national scale, and to envision possibilities for the post-national present and future of musical life. |
Me ke aloha
Malama pono,
Wanda |
Edited by - wcerto on 08/02/2010 08:56:21 AM |
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