Hawaiian Rainbow
1988 : 1 hour 25 minutes
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Director: Robert Mugge
synopsis
Hawaiian Rainbow is "music filmmaker" pioneer Robert Mugge 1987 film about Hawaiian music, examining Hawaii's traditional chants, percussion, ukulele, slack-key and steel guitar, male and female falsetto, and the lush vocal harmonies, many of them accompanied by authentic Hawaiian dance styles.
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