Music
What is Love? (baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me no more) Resistance, and cultural affirmation
This word means the cultural destabilization associated with the US militarization and modernization of the Marshall Islands.
What is Emakūt?
Marshallese youth use "Minor songs" in this way.
What is used in hip hop, rap, and slam poetry to express love, resistance and alternative Indigenous futurities?
Music education was introduced and shaped in the Marshall Islands historically, in this way.
What are American Missionaries, and/or christian colonial authority?
This term means a person who determines the musical key or metaphorical keynote, guiding harmony and setting tonal foundation in both musical and diplomatic contexts.
What is rikaki?
"Major Mode" of engagement refers to this in Marshallese cultural-political relations.
What is cultural dependency and political representation through domination by powerful countries?
Missionaries affected traditional Marshalles music and Culture through these ways.
What is suppression of indigenous singing about land, lineage and conforming to Christian authority
A form of oral tradition, ceremony and storytelling. Banned in the 1800s when Christianity/Missionaries arrived in Hawai'i, but persisted by going underground
What is Hula Kahiko?
This term depicts the popularity of Marshallese “love songs,” a Marshallese appropriation of sounds originally associated with the American pop market of the 1950s.
What is Al in maina
This is the impact of Compact of Free Association (COFA) on the Marshall Islands.
What is Marshall Islands' sovereighnty that allows for some compensation for nuclear dmagae, and permits to allow Marshallese to live work, and travel in the US visa-free.
A collective term that groups together many of the islands in the pacific, refering as 'a sea of islands', (Epeli Hau'ofa)
What is Oceania?
Gender plays this role in Marshallese Minor Songs.
What is complementarity through hip hop, rap, and slam poetry, along with feminine vocal empowerment?
U.S. Military presence in the Marshall Islands reflected in youth music in this way.
What is critique of Military exploitation, nuclear legacy, and socio-political dependency?
This term is in reference to a teacher of Hula, who holds the most knowledge of the practice, and traditions, a title that can only be earned after many years of training.
What is Kumu Hula?