Part one of term paper
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. Over the years, it has almost become an obsession of sorts for her to ...

Part two of term paper
... the ancient, epic stories of their ancestors and gods. They told of how the ancestors came to Hawaii, how Hawaii was first created. It was primarily used as a form of worship and passing down history and genealogy and to keep the social hierarchy intact. It was often accompanied by music and occasionally by instruments made from gourds, coconut shells and logs covered with a sharkskin membrane. The main purpose of these is to provide a rattling or drumming sound. A mele or rhythmic chanting of poe ...