Post-European influence on the music of American Samoa
Samoa police brass band parading in Apia to flag raising ceremony, the brand parades every morning from Monday to Friday in Samoa. T...
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Samoa
police brass band parading in Apia to flag raising ceremony, the brand parades
every morning from Monday to Friday in Samoa.
The
introduction of Christianity, especially after the arrival of LMS mission in
1830, the music of Samoa was greatly inclined by Western evangelical hymnody
and a popular music in North America popular music. The two stringed
instruments now become the most popular in the Island, the guitar which is the
(Kitara) and Ukulele in the early 20th century. At the end of the 19th
century, the European style brass bands become into existence in the major
cities.
The
coming of Christianity took root in the island, in the late 19th
century, ancient songs which followed by the percussive sound of stick beating
on the rolled mat, which gave way to church choirs songs to the harmonies of
cycled organs. Later on the radio transmission brought about the different
variety as their local artists and the audience like the each wave of the new
music. The advert of the United States marines during the World War 11 helped
to harden the attention for American popular music. The early bands copied this
music as a trend that continues. It is common for the Samoan to accept Western
songs which substitute the lyrics with Samoan word, later introduce the tune as
the original. The guitar and Ukulele became the usual instruments for composing
the music. That particular sound is now often substitute by the electronic
keyboard and the multiplex of sound and fake instruments available in it.
Several current Samoa musicians upgrade old Samoa tunes with the new technology
or copy America popular music.