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	Hula (dance) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Hula is a form of chant and (A party for social dancing) dance, which was developed in the (A group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific) Hawaiian Islands by the (A native or inhabitant of Polynesia) Polynesians who originally settled there.
		The chant (mele) is accompanied by (additional info and facts about ipu) ipu (a (Any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds) gourd) and 'ili'ili (stones used as clappers).
		There are also religious chants called (additional info and facts about mele) mele; when accompanied by (Taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music) dancing and (A musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end) drums, it is called mele hula pahu.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Hu/Hula_(dance).htm (573 words)

	Hula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hula is universally known as primarily a Hawaiian dance.
		Hula is often performed as a form of prayer at official state functions in Hawaii.
		There are also religious chants called 'oli; when accompanied by dancing and drums, it is called mele hula pahu.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hula (504 words)

	Hula (dance) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The chant (mele) is accompanied by ipu (a gourd) and 'ili'ili (stones used as clappers).Listeners dance in a highly ritualized manner.
		Hula practitioners merged Hawaiian poetry, chanted vocal performance, dance movements and costumes to create the new form,the hula ku'i (ku'i means "to combine old and new").
		Ritual and prayer surrounded all aspects of hula training and practice, even as late as the early twentieth century.Teachers and students were dedicated to the goddess of the hula, Laka.
	www.therfcc.org /hula-dance--134621.html (400 words)

	Read about Hula at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Hula and learn about Hula here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Here, hula is performed for a ceremony turning over U.S. Navy control over the island of Kahoolawe to the state.
		Hula is a form of chant and dance, which was developed in the
		Laka, goddess of the hula, gave birth to the dance on the island of
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Hula_%28dance%29 (429 words)

	Notes
		This pahu hula is danced in the ha`a style (bended knee), hence the misnomer of hula ha`a.
		I prefer the term pahu to ha`a because hula ha'a is more correctly a style of dancing rather than a type of dance, just like ku`i molokai is a type of hula from that island, not to be confused with the ku`i style or court dance of the monarchy period.
		When you speak of the hula pahu and that the kapu is lifted when doing performances (not competitions) is the kapu placed by the kumu and released by the kumu?.
	www.huapala.org /Notes.html (3344 words)

	Learn To Hula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Theisland is praised in the saying '"Molokai Ka Hula Piko,"' which translates "Molokai, the center of the dance".
		Dances accompanied by the pahu (sharkskin-covered log drum, used in templeceremonies) appear to be the most sacred, dedicated to the gods.
		Hula practitioners merged Hawaiian poetry, chanted vocal performance, dance movements and costumes to create the new form,the hula ku'i...
	www.witchware.com /File/45426-Learn.To.Hula.Html (429 words)

	Music of Hawaii - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The earliest known music of Hawaii was the hula, which featured a chant (mele) accompanied by ipu (a gourd) and 'ili'ili (stones used as clappers).
		The two kinds of Hawaiian chanting were mele oli and mele hula.
		Mele chants were governed by strict rules, and were performed in a number of styles include the rapid kepakepa and the enunciate koihonua [1] (http://gohawaii.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coffeetimes.com%2Fsept97.htm).
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Music_of_Hawaii (1511 words)

	Pahu Picture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Part of my preparation for `ūniki (a rite of passage after traditional training in Hawai`i) was the construction of a pahu, a Hawaiian drum, carved from the trunk of a coconut tree, and topped with a skin (in ancient times, a shark skin -- these days, a cow).
		The pahu is a standard accompaniment to mele hula (hula chants) and as we learned the repertoire of chants required for our demonstration of skill, the pahu would complement voice.
		My pahu was completed in December, and on the night of completion, I heard the clear call of the kōlea, a Pacific golden plover, that yearly migrates from Alaska to Hawai`i.
	www.aloha.net /~smgon/pahu.htm (270 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hula
		Hula sequence in the movie Lilo and Stitch This work is copyrighted.
		A gourd is a hollow, dried shell of a fruit in the Cucurbitaceae family of plants.
		In Polynesian mythology (specifically: Hawaii), Pele is a goddess of fire, lightning, dance, volcanoes and violence, a daughter of Haumea and Kane Milohai.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hula (1291 words)

	The Hula
		Hula is an expression of prose and poetry, a dramatization and immortalization of the Hawaiian aho (lifeline), in which the
		With the practice of hula, the development of aloha (love and compassion), mahalo (respect), kupono (honesty), kuleana (responsibility), of malama and kokua (care and help), ha`aha`a (humility), hu`eu (humor), as well as malu (strength), ahonui (patience), mahao`o (wisdom) and `oia`i`o (truth) is encouraged.
		Hula is open to anyone who has the desire, the patience and stamina to pursue its rigorous and demanding training.
	www.kaimi.org /the_hula.htm (589 words)

	Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: XII.--The Hula Pahu
		La’a was an enthusiastic patron of the hula and is said to have made a tour of the islands, in which he instructed the natives in new forms of this seductive pastime, one of which was the hula ka-eke.
		The hula pahu was preeminently a performance of formal and dignified character, not such as would be extemporized for the amusement of an irreverent company.
		Both classes of actors took part in the performance of the hula pahu, the olapa contributing the mele as they stood and went through the motions of the dance, while the hoopaa maintained the kneeling position and operated the big drum with the left hand.
	www.sacred-texts.com /pac/ulh/ulh16.htm (1157 words)

	TAP Program Notes 1999: Hula Dance from Moloka'i (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Mele hula were rhythmic chants that accompanied percussion instruments and sacred hula dances performed at temple rituals to honor deities, priests (kahunas), and chiefs, as well as for important events such as a royal birth, the completion of a canoe house (halau wa'a) or the consecration of taro fields (lo'ikalo).
		The 20th century saw the hula parodied into green-cellophane-skirted shimmy-and-shake kitsch on the vaudeville circuits of the 1920s, exploited and distorted by Hollywood (re-member Elvis Presley in "Blue Hawaii!"), and commercially stereotyped to pander to tourist perceptions of the exotic.
		hula is alive and flourishing, sustained not by tourist interest alone, but by performances at civic and private functions and through the many annual competitions held in the Islands.
	www.calacademy.org /research/anthropology/tap/archive/1999/1999-06--hula.html (1335 words)

	Paul Waters' Hawaiian Learning Center: Hula
		Mele are records of cultural information ranging from sacred mele pule (prayers) and mele inoa (name chants, many for chiefs) to topical mele ho'oipoipo (love songs) and mele 'aina (songs praising the land); the type of mele used is one way of classifying the dances.
		A close correspondence exists between foot motifs and ipu and pahu rhythmic patterns: change in one is normally simultaneous with change in the other, often at the start of a new phrase, at a narrative juncture, or in the textless interlude between verses of the mele.
		The organization of foot motifs by phrase or verse in song-accompanied hula ku'i remains conceptually the same as in older hula, despite the replacement of ipu and pahu accompaniment by guitar and ukulele.
	www.paulwaters.com /hulaenc.htm (1689 words)

	Ka'iwakiloumoku - Hawaiian Cultural Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The variables in Hawaiian hula pahu poetry and dance are legion and cannot be cloistered or shoved into an ultra-narrow form of speculation.
		As explained by Dr. Elizabeth Tatar in Volume II, the "Pahu Project" began in August 1979 in response, albeit reluctantly, to Adrienne Kaeppler's request to include a section on the music of the Hawaiian drum in a publication planned to supplement an exhibition at the Bishop Museum on pahu and pūniu.
		In short, the native practitioner of the pahu, along with future generations, could easily circumvent the first volume of Hula Pahu and feel confident that their practice will be secure owing to the fullness of Tatar's research.
	www.kaiwakiloumoku.ksbe.edu /kaleinamanu/4-hulapahu.php (1257 words)

	Music : Hawaiian Drum Dance Chants: Sounds of Power in Time
		Ulei Pahu I Ka Moku - Kawena Pukui
		'Ulei Pahu I Ka Moku - Hoakalei Kamu'u
		Mele, sung alone, are said to be performed in the oli style (without dance or musical instruments).
	www.codeshq.com /ItemId/B000001DGP (759 words)

	hula information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Your search for 'hula' seem to be correctly spelled.
		The birth of the hula is celebrated in a festival called Ka Hula Piko every May on Molokai.The island is praised in the saying '"Molokai Ka Hula Piko,"' which translates "Molokai, the center of the dance".
		The pahu appears not to have been used in hula ku'i,evidently because its sacredness was respected by practitioners; the ipu gourd (Lagenaria sicenaria) was the indigenousinstrument most closely associated with hula ku'i.
	www.vsearchmedia.com /hula.html (470 words)

	Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: XV.--The Hula Ka-laau
		The hula ka-laau (ka, to strike; laau, wood) was named from the instruments of wood used in producing the accompaniment, a sort of xylophone, in which one piece of resonant wood was struck against another.
		The hula ka-laau was thus presented; it was marked, however, by such peculiarities as to make it hardly recognizable as being the same performance as the one elsewhere known by that name.
		Another departure from the usual style of this hula was that the hoopaa, at the same time, devoted themselves with the right hand to playing upon the pu-niu, the small drum, while with the left they developed the deep bass of the pahu.
	www.sacred-texts.com /pac/ulh/ulh19.htm (918 words)

	Pekelo Day
		His study in Hula and Chant started early in life, and at age 13, he won first place in oli at the Kamehameha Day Competition on O’ahu, and was recognized as the youngest instructor in the state.
		Kumu hula, their halau, musicians from around the island and guest entertainers from neighbor islands are invited to share their talents at Wai’ohinu Park..
		The collection includes the mele hula kahiko that serious students of hula are expected to learn as part of their hula foundation.
	www.hulasource.com /kboo/pekeloday.html (511 words)

	Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Mele hula are chants accompanied by dance and often by musical instruments.
		Instruments or implements that accompany the mele hula include the drum (pahu), the double gourd (ipu heke), the gourd rattle (uliuli), and slapping of the hands on the chest (pai umauma).
		Though sonorous, Hawaiian mele were repetitive chants in which the emphasis was placed on historical accuracy and not on "making music".
	www.visitor-info.net /music.html (506 words)

	Hula Preservation Society
		Hula Wahi Pana comprise a large class of dances that honor places of such emotional, spiritual, historical, or cultural significance that chants were composed for them.
		Beyond the particular hula tradition, what ultimately determines the manner in which a Hula Wahi Pana is performed are the specific place involved, why it is significant, the story being shared about it, and its importance in the composer's view.
		While many are mele hula (chants that are danced), others can be just oli, i.e.
	www.hulapreservation.org /Hulatype.asp?ID=16 (541 words)

	Ipu band
		Focus is concentrated on playing ancient Hawaiian music using instruments such as 'ili'ili and pahu hula, as well as the ipu heke.
		Mele are used as a form of oral literature, a method of passing on historical facts by memory with dignity and respect.
		Sometimes mele are accompanied by hula, Hawaiian dances that interpret the chants using movement and gestures.
	www.manapualabs.com /Links/ipu.html (173 words)

	Hula Preservation Society
		What ultimately determines the manner in which a Hula Ali`i is performed (beyond the particulars of the hula tradition doing the Hula Ali`i) are the specific ali`i chant, what is appropriate to the particular ali`i being honored and the story being told.
		Often a Hula Ali`i will be referred to as either Mele Inoa (name chant) or Mele Ali`i (poetic text for royalty).
		Look under "mele inoa" in the index for the pages on which the chant details can be found.
	www.hulapreservation.org /hulatype.asp?ID=7 (562 words)

	Sunset: Art of the hula - history of popular Hawaiian dance - Brief Article
		Hula, as old as the Hawaiian culture, was once shared by all of the people.
		Considered lewd by American missionaries who arrived in Hawaii in 1820, hula nearly vanished in 1896, when the Hawaiian language was abolished from local schools.
		Costumes and music are also different: Kahiko is danced to rhythms of the pahu (drum) and ipu (gourd); auana uses piano, guitar, ukulele, and bass.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1216/is_4_206/ai_72704345 (367 words)

	Mark Kealii Hoomalu Productions
		In his 25-year career as a kumu hula in California, Ho'omalu's halaus repeatedly take home honors in the major hula competitions on the West Coast and are among a select few halaus based in the mainland U.S. invited to compete in the annual Merrie Monarch Hula Competition in Hilo, Hawai'i.
		Ho'omalu was one of three California kumu hula that filmmaker Lisette Marie Flanary chose to highlight in the PBS "Point of View" documentary, American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai'i.
		Ho'omalu was commissioned by the Monterey Bay Aquarium to compose a chant and hula for the new exhibit.
	www.mkhproductions.com /2003/about.html (1029 words)

	Different Types of Hula
		the hula, the indigenous dances of Hawai`i; a hula dancer; to dance the hula
		Around the turn of the century, hula began to evolve from the
		ballroom dancing with partners, American dancing; massed hula dancing; to dance; play in which many dance and sing, and few drum and sing.
	www.geocities.com /~olelo/o-h-hula.html (481 words)

	Costumes & Adornments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		In 1815, an eyewitness named Chamisso wrote a description of a hula performance: "poetry, music, and dancing, which, in the South Sea islands appear hand-in-hand in their original union to adorn human life, deserve to be particularly attended to.
		Pele was fond of red; Hi`iaka, as one of the altar goddesses, wore green; mele pertaining to the sea resulted in the wearing of blue tapa; and those mele with earth themes required a brown tapa.
		For the hula pahu (drum dance), a kikepa around the body was used as well.
	www.worldhula.com /costumes_%26_adornments.htm (505 words)

	Tikipedia - The World's Swankiest Website
		In the pre-European era, hula was closely tied to religious practices.
		The chant may be accompanied by an ipu, a gourd, and 'ili 'ili, stones that are clapped together.
		Missionaries arriving to the islands in the early 19th Century discouraged hula as paganistic.
	www.tikipedia.com /tikipedia/tikipedia_hula.html (183 words)

	Dancetera: Vol_1: No_2: Article 1
		The Na Ponohula participants also learned a mele (chant) relating to their chosen subject, and we were given the opportunity to perform the mele while showcasing our projects during the closing ceremony.
		The greater and primary kuahu is our native forest, the second kuahu is the miniature of this native forest that is assembled in the halau hula, and lastly, the very body of the hula practitioner becomes a kuahu when their limbs, neck and head are bound and knotted with native forest greenery.
		The kuahu is the physical abode of the Hula deity Laka.
	www.mahea.com /dancetera/Vol_1/No_2/article01.html (1244 words)

	Kumu Hula Manu Ikaika (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Mahina, as he was known, was the distinguished founder and master of the traditional Halau Hula Mahina O Wakinekona DC from 1985 until his death in 1999 and leader of his own performing troupe – Mahina and the Polynesians.
		In former times, a Kumu Hula was not issued a certificate, but the tradition of passing on the chants and dances is now more formalized and only a recognized Kumu Hula may bestow this title on a student.
		With instruction and performances known for authenticity, precision, and a special sensitivity and mana (spiritual feelings), Kumu Hula Manu Ikaika captivates the hearts and minds of both his students and his audiences.
	www.halau.org /manubiography.htm (758 words)

	P.O.V. - American Aloha . On Mele \| PBS
		While some kumu hula are also poets, and some poets are also kumu hula, poetic composition and choreographic interpretation are separate sets of skills and knowledge.
		The pahu, used in the context of the heiau or temples by kahuna (priests), were an important part of sacred ceremonies and rituals.
		Although the pahu used for hula is not the same as the one used for temple services, it still assumes and maintains a venerated and ceremonial nature.
	www.pbs.org /pov/pov2003/americanaloha/special_moremele.html (1363 words)

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