Hawaiian Music, Language and Technology. With A Dash of Ethnomusicology.
Mike Torres is a Microsoft employee (on the Microsoft “Places” team) who has given up on Napster’s music rental service. When you make your DRM (digital rights management) so unmanageable that the legitimate purchaser has…
I came across this book in my search for a dissertation topic, and have not been disappointed. It examines how global performers deal with the issue of language and dialect choice. I was most intrigued…
I frequently tune into Radio na Gaeltachta, the Irish language radio station, from my office. As we’re 10 hours behind them, I catch their late-PM and early-AM programming, which is quite eclectic. Today I’ve heard…
I remember that during our trip to Ireland we got spuds with every dish, including lasagna at the kitchen next to Oideas Gael. My wife ordered salmon at a restaurant in Co. Sligo. She got…
Former bandmaster Aaron Mahi testified in favor of a bill which would require future bandmasters of the Royal Hawaiian Band be able to speak Hawaiian. I’d like to see it go further – all future…
About a month ago I joined a listserve where members discuss Irish traditional music. While the exact definition of that is obviously debatable, as is the definition of Hawaiian music, the discussion on the list…
The iPod mini has finally reached the pricepoint that I’ve been waiting for. I sense one appearing in my mailbox shortly.
Our ITS division is on the ball – my appearance with Bob Stauffer on David Lassner’s “High Tech Hawai’i” TV program is online and streaming already.
[From the Honolulu Star-Bulletin ]. I was on the UH-Manoa campus during the time leading up to Ward Churchill’s lecture, but did not attend. The area around the hall where he spoke was a zoo,…
An interesting article from the Times-Argus site discusses the increasing use of “y’all” beyond the south. Is the South rising again, is it the use of “y’all” in hip-hop, or is the term filling a…