Hawaiian Music 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 find out everything she could about Hawaii and from her interest, my own grew as well. The music and dance of Hawaii has, for the most part, always been closely tied to their beliefs in their gods and goddesses such as Pele, goddess of fire, who lives in a volcano. Hawaiian dance, particularly Hula, traditionally has been to tell 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 hi....

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