| Show n- n 1 z VeU owe HAWAII ONE ONI O E SPOT YOU It NO XO JAZZ J ny nr 1 5 II ROWELL This Is from rom Hawaii as all column will be bo for perhaps tw more weeks week All tourist resorts have boosters but certain boosters have discovered tho the most original talking cf them all In lit Hawaii they sa you can escape jazz azz There Thero are arc to be sure dance orchestras in Honolulu perforce play Jazz for visitors would not know how to dance t anything else But they play apologetically and mean well a good Kool musicians should And nd generally genera II even tourist com corn finds it U profitable t banish the tho jazz Possibly this Is the only bible t-Ible spot on earth still relative I uninfected The melad meld mela d ous native Hawaiian music ha ha gone Kone all over the th ml chance visitors jr jar already alrea Iy amnia enough with It to want to hear hearon Ion on its native soil Probably It could not now even n In Hawaii but the write recalls a few tew years ago attending Jazz concert In Honolulu with on cf ct the most cultivated ladles in th Ih I h islands who had until then heard jazz This was from a a. college ge gle gle- club Jub stopping over ov r one day on way to the tho orient and natural they thc y jazzed the as only bays beys can tan It was W Interesting H to not nol the reaction of ot a n. cultivated an sensitive be but wholly mind The rhe comment was startling b Interesting There was no au it ItUS w was US s music POLYNESIAN X AND n IT ROSE nOSE This Polynesian music of ot the he Hawaiian allan is fa the only form torm t to the outside world is a Interesting development Originally the Polynesian P Flee Flea had chants as ns primitive prinitivo those of or African savages with of ot only four tour notes One ca hear chants in Nubia and in in- Fl FI a 8 western ear could scarce tell apart The missionaries ha difficulty difficulty- teaching them the western western ern scale But when they once learned 1 their inherent Inhere artistic genius cause them to develop elop it in forms torms nor mor delicate delicate- dc and melodious than an antho antho anthe tho the missionaries s knew Tho The world knows the Hawaiian form torm In FIJI it Is mor barbaric Tho The I are arc only Polynesian and pro Fro mostly of blood One of them Intones the in n a way familiar In tho the singing American Ame negroes ne while the tho other boom tho the in constantly accelerated 4 time In a way that belongs the tho jungles Yet the al Itself ll elt Is probably recognizably de derived derived derived rived from some somo familiar meeting camp hymn In Tahiti It takes lakes tho the form torm o 0 of ot singing himenes s. s Al are lre totally tot llly different from tho the origInal Inal native chant but all aro are nisi alsi refinements of ot th the 4 early nineteenth century church must from which they are arc derived dc |
