After the World War II, Hawaii
had room to grow when it came to music for them it was like a thing of hope
something to cling on to when all else failed. And they found it through the integration
of different cultures. Hawaiians where given the tools to play around with
different types of music because they were essentially given tips and tricks
from other place around the world where they can integrate their own style with
the style of others in their music. The freedom that they over what they wanted
to portray in their music was unreal because they were able to take the
initiative to add different instruments that they may have needed like the
ukulele and many other instruments to make their music that they were making
their own.
The Hawaiians not only incorporated their on instruments,
but they also had their own way of dancing. The type of dance that the
Hawaiians took on was the hula. The Hawaiians had built hula schools which
helped in the rebirth of the Hawaiian language and the music that they lost
sight of after the World War II. The hula was a way to combine the music and
dance to essentially explain to tourist as well to the younger children what
the land and Mother Nature means to the native Hawaiians. It also was an aide
to get the younger children to learn a little bit about what the Hawaiian
language meant to their parents and their culture.
I feel that the Hawaiians were trying their best
to get involved with the growing music around them as well as trying to stay
true to their roots and keeping the mother nature in mind that yea it would be
cool to have all the nice music and clothing and things like that, but after a
war a mixture of It all is nice. The Hawaiians eventually got into the whole
hip hop scene more in the 1980s, but it Is those beginning stages that I
believe makes the most impact on cultures, and I personally think that after a
war it is nice that the Hawaiians not only found themselves, but they found a
new light of music that they have tons of time to explore and make their own
regardless if people liked it or not. At the same time they brought the
community together because they did have the Hula schools and language and the
music
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