Mele hula (English spelling)

Japanese: mele hula(英語表記)melehula
Mele hula (English spelling)

...The dance has elements of pantomime, with the chest fixed and the hands, hips, legs, and facial expressions, especially the eyes, moving gracefully to depict natural elements such as the sun, birds, and the sea. The music is a slow, bouncing rhythm with a chant-like song accompanied by percussion instruments (drums or ipu), and this song is called mele hula. After 1820, Christian missionaries came to the islands from the United States and misinterpreted hula as immoral and banned it. It was later revived at the end of the 19th century, ushering in the era of modern hula, but there are many cases where vulgar hip-shaking dances poisoned by commercialism were called hula or hula dance, and misunderstandings about hula have not been eliminated even today. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "mele hula" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…踊りは胸部を固定し,手,腰,足,そして表情ことに目を優雅に動かして,太陽,鳥,海などの自然を描写的に表現するパントマイムの要素をもつ。音楽はゆったりバウンスするリズムにのった詠唱的な歌に打楽器(太鼓もしくはイプ)がつくのが古典的な形で,この歌をメレ・フラmele hulaという。 1820年以降アメリカからキリスト教の宣教師が来島し,フラを不道徳的なものと曲解して禁止,その後19世紀末期に再興されてモダン・フラの時代を迎えるが,商業主義に毒された俗悪な腰振り踊りがフラあるいはフラ・ダンスと呼ばれた例が多く,フラに対する誤解は今なお払拭されていない。…

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