Music with Kirsten Zemke: Hawaiian vocal styles - a podcast by RNZ

Music commentator Kirsten Zemke joins Kathryn to talk about Hawaiian music and how it emphasizes the voice. She'll talk about why many songs feature falsetto or leo ki'eki'e (high voice) and where the slack key guitar originated from. Kirsten Zemke is an ethnomusicologist at the University of Auckland's School of Social Sciences,

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