KUMU HULA: CHALLENGING JOURNEY OF A HULA MASTER
by Minoru Yanagihashi
Pages: 166
Dimensions: 6 x 9
Category- PERFORMING ARTS - Dance - History & Criticism
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Entertainment & Performing Arts
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Native American & Aboriginal
Type : Paperback
ISBN : 9781545681152
Price : $16.99
There is a persistent myth about hula with its grass shirt and hip movements. But hula tells a story or has a message, and the movements of the hands, feet, and other parts of the body only help in telling the story.
From this book, you’ll understand how:
Traditional and modern hula deepens your love for the dance
Through hula, you can learn about the Hawaiian language and culture
Hula meets the needs in other countries
Hula helps with your physical and emotional challenges
Hula meets your spiritual needs
As a professional dancer and teacher, Leiola expresses her love for hula and the Hawaiian culture through her performances and teaching. For her, hula is the essence of Hawaiian culture-she wants to share this love of hula with others.
Minoru, as a connoisseur of hula, is interested in the background of hula and its role in Hawaiian culture and about its current status and prospect for the future.
Hula is evolving and herein lays its strength. To understand hula properly, you need to know about the past, for it helps to explain the present. In other words, the unchanging parts of the past explain the changing present. Hula is, indeed, the artistic language of Hawai’i, but it is also the artistic language of the world.
Leiola Aquino Galla
Of Filipino, Irish, and Hawaiian ancestry, she has taught hula for over forty-five years on the Big Island of Hawai’i and in Eugene,OR and Tucson, AZ. She was a student of the pioneer hula master, George Na’ope, and has been associated with and influenced by some of the foremost instructors in the world of hula. A participant in the renaissance of hula, she has been an innovator of Christian hula and therapeutic hula.
Minoru Yanagihashi
Born and raised in Hawai’i, he is a second-generation Japanese American. His educational background includes: BA, University of Hawaii; MLS, University of Washington; MA, University of California, Berkeley; and PhD, University of Michigan. He has taught at several colleges and universities, and his interest ranges from Japanese history and government to the role of Japanese Americans in Hawai’i and on the mainland.
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