Comments on: pressurizing the local http://www.jeelago.net/work/2008/04/29/pressurizing-the-local/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:05:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: jeela http://www.jeelago.net/work/2008/04/29/pressurizing-the-local/#comment-503 jeela Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:15:35 +0000 http://www.jeelago.net/work/?p=102#comment-503 ah, thx for passing that on, Sarah. It would be so interesting to comb through past archives looking for songs in this style. I'll have to ask Hank what he thinks of Johnny Noble... ah, thx for passing that on, Sarah. It would be so interesting to comb through past archives looking for songs in this style. I’ll have to ask Hank what he thinks of Johnny Noble…

]]> By: sarah smorol http://www.jeelago.net/work/2008/04/29/pressurizing-the-local/#comment-502 sarah smorol Sat, 31 May 2008 21:30:53 +0000 http://www.jeelago.net/work/?p=102#comment-502 Hey jeela- just came across an article (Hawaiians on Tour) which names Johnny Noble as "the Hawaiian King of Jazz" circa 1929 when his hapa-haole hit "for you a lei" was popular- the song is described by the author Adria L. Imada as " a jazz-influenced hula faeturing English language lyrics"(121)-This is from the March 2004 American Quarterly. Anyways thought it might be of interest-sarah ps- still have your video- must get together-ciao! PPS- COULDN'T FIND THE JOHNNY NOBLE VERSION BUT HERE IS A CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE OF THE SONG ON YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FDLYC5xess Hey jeela- just came across an article (Hawaiians on Tour) which names Johnny Noble as “the Hawaiian King of Jazz” circa 1929 when his hapa-haole hit “for you a lei” was popular- the song is described by the author Adria L. Imada as ” a jazz-influenced hula faeturing English language lyrics”(121)-This is from the March 2004 American Quarterly. Anyways thought it might be of interest-sarah
ps- still have your video- must get together-ciao!
PPS- COULDN’T FIND THE JOHNNY NOBLE VERSION BUT HERE IS A CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE OF THE SONG ON YOUTUBE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FDLYC5xess

]]> By: jeela http://www.jeelago.net/work/2008/04/29/pressurizing-the-local/#comment-497 jeela Mon, 12 May 2008 08:36:57 +0000 http://www.jeelago.net/work/?p=102#comment-497 ay, Sean the feed is EASY if you use Firefox?? there is an orange icon to the right of the place where you type the URL. click that and then subscribe in Live Bookmarks... then under "Bookmarks" the browser will have all the latest headlines of any RSS-enabled site you add, including mines hehehe there are a bunch of other ways to subscribe (I use Google Reader) but the browser method is super duper easy. thx thx for your comment. I know jazzy/Hawaiian styles have happened from time to time, but if they want to make it a movement, practice/jamming/improv/commitment is totally key! people just gotta do the dang thing and see what happens... Sorry I missed you guys when you were out here :'( I tried but SOMEONE was giving me a hard time! friggin guy! glad you guys got to meet up tho :~j ay, Sean the feed is EASY if you use Firefox?? there is an orange icon to the right of the place where you type the URL. click that and then subscribe in Live Bookmarks… then under “Bookmarks” the browser will have all the latest headlines of any RSS-enabled site you add, including mines hehehe

there are a bunch of other ways to subscribe (I use Google Reader) but the browser method is super duper easy.

thx thx for your comment. I know jazzy/Hawaiian styles have happened from time to time, but if they want to make it a movement, practice/jamming/improv/commitment is totally key! people just gotta do the dang thing and see what happens…

Sorry I missed you guys when you were out here :’( I tried but SOMEONE was giving me a hard time! friggin guy! glad you guys got to meet up tho :~j

]]> By: seanie sean passean http://www.jeelago.net/work/2008/04/29/pressurizing-the-local/#comment-493 seanie sean passean Thu, 08 May 2008 16:00:14 +0000 http://www.jeelago.net/work/?p=102#comment-493 You know, I really have to login to Facebook more often, so I can see when you post new blogs...I have figured out that feeder thing yet. Anyway MANY years ago (when I was still at UH..95 or 96?)I went to see a show at the Art Academy theater with Byron Yasui (my music theory teacher at the time)and Lyle Ritz. Looking back at my journal on this, they did a lot of Hawaiian songs ranging from hapa-haole tunes (Waikiki, Blue Hawaii) to actual Hawaiian songs that I knew (Koke'e, Kanaka Waiwai) and it was DOPE. Were they more able to translate Hawaiian into Jazz because of their experience/age? That might be dismissive of the younger cats playing jazz, but still..the more people that you play with the better your improvisation becomes. I would think that you have to know about the chord structures in slack key guitar tunings, or else if you strayed outside of them during your solo, it would sound less-hawaiian(??) Around that same time there used to be a "big band" that played at Coconuts at the Ilikai on Mondays. 20 guys or so. I can't remember if they did Hawaiian songs or not. You know, I really have to login to Facebook more often, so I can see when you post new blogs…I have figured out that feeder thing yet.

Anyway MANY years ago (when I was still at UH..95 or 96?)I went to see a show at the Art Academy theater with Byron Yasui (my music theory teacher at the time)and Lyle Ritz. Looking back at my journal on this, they did a lot of Hawaiian songs ranging from hapa-haole tunes (Waikiki, Blue Hawaii) to actual Hawaiian songs that I knew (Koke’e, Kanaka Waiwai) and it was DOPE.
Were they more able to translate Hawaiian into Jazz because of their experience/age? That might be dismissive of the younger cats playing jazz, but still..the more people that you play with the better your improvisation becomes. I would think that you have to know about the chord structures in slack key guitar tunings, or else if you strayed outside of them during your solo, it would sound less-hawaiian(??)

Around that same time there used to be a “big band” that played at Coconuts at the Ilikai on Mondays. 20 guys or so. I can’t remember if they did Hawaiian songs or not.

]]> By: Sean http://www.jeelago.net/work/2008/04/29/pressurizing-the-local/#comment-490 Sean Wed, 07 May 2008 20:49:26 +0000 http://www.jeelago.net/work/?p=102#comment-490 Hey Jeela. I guess one thing that jumped out for me for whatever reason, is to what extent do we need to account for some kind of balanced bidirectional flow in critical regionalism? What I mean is, we have Hawai`i importing and adapting cultural forms like reggae and jazz, but at some point do we need to "balance the books," so to speak, and ensure that Hawai`ian cultural forms are then exported to the rest of the world? If not, isn't it just repackaged globalization, as local spaces adopt more and more globalized cultural forms without having a recognized voice of their own? Hey Jeela.

I guess one thing that jumped out for me for whatever reason, is to what extent do we need to account for some kind of balanced bidirectional flow in critical regionalism? What I mean is, we have Hawai`i importing and adapting cultural forms like reggae and jazz, but at some point do we need to “balance the books,” so to speak, and ensure that Hawai`ian cultural forms are then exported to the rest of the world? If not, isn’t it just repackaged globalization, as local spaces adopt more and more globalized cultural forms without having a recognized voice of their own?

]]> By: jeela http://www.jeelago.net/work/2008/04/29/pressurizing-the-local/#comment-480 jeela Thu, 01 May 2008 19:48:34 +0000 http://www.jeelago.net/work/?p=102#comment-480 thx ladies! :~j you make a good point tomo, even a song like My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua Hawaii has some "baggage" w/re to the local. thx ladies! :~j you make a good point tomo, even a song like My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua Hawaii has some “baggage” w/re to the local.

]]> By: tomo http://www.jeelago.net/work/2008/04/29/pressurizing-the-local/#comment-479 tomo Thu, 01 May 2008 09:20:44 +0000 http://www.jeelago.net/work/?p=102#comment-479 jeela: like sara, i was also excited when Hawaiian jazz was mentioned. however, one of my concerns was which types of songs musicians would choose to arrange in a jazz style and how much local can be maintained before it is consumed entirely by the global. jeela: like sara, i was also excited when Hawaiian jazz was mentioned. however, one of my concerns was which types of songs musicians would choose to arrange in a jazz style and how much local can be maintained before it is consumed entirely by the global.

]]> By: sarah http://www.jeelago.net/work/2008/04/29/pressurizing-the-local/#comment-478 sarah Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:33:17 +0000 http://www.jeelago.net/work/?p=102#comment-478 Hi Jeela- hawaiian jazz sounds exciting- what I kind of latched onto in your paper was the idea of "something that makes sense for hawaii(ans)"-This is the type of gut feeling that sometimes gets discredited by parties with different ideas/visions- yet,I know what he means- sometimes I wish the world was more open to doing things that "make sense"- sarah Hi Jeela-
hawaiian jazz sounds exciting- what I kind of latched onto in your paper was the idea of “something that makes sense for hawaii(ans)”-This is the type of gut feeling that sometimes gets discredited by parties with different ideas/visions- yet,I know what he means- sometimes I wish the world was more open to doing things that “make sense”- sarah

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