Thanks for watching this video, y'all!! I just wanted to reiterate that the history behind hapa-haole music and the U.S.' relationship to Hawai'i isn't really something that can be completely encapsulated in a short video essay. I highly recommend that you check out the links I put in the description if you want to learn more. Hope you're staying safe and secure out there
As a Hawaiian and being from Hawaii, the Tiki Room is a touch racially charged and archaic. And I absolutely love you going out of your way to pronounce the Hawaiian words as accurate as possible. Thank you so very much
Dole was part of a coup against the sovereign nation of Hawai'i www.history.com/this-day-in-history/americans-overthrow-hawaiian-monarchy#:~:text=In%20January%201893%2C%20a%20revolutionary,proclaimed%20Hawaii%20a%20U.S.%20protectorate.
Another great video! Also, I've lived in Hawai'i my entire life, I was born and raised here, and I just want to say thank you Dreamsounds for doing all this really well-done research and including (and correctly pronouncing) a lot of the history for how all this music came to be. A lot of other people I know who live here don't even know this history because this style of music isn't even that popular here, it's a thing way more popular outside Hawaii (or in very tourist-focused places, imagine that). People don't talk enough about how the Hapa-Haole and Tiki Room aesthetics came from white culture thinking (and romanticizing in a weird way) Hawaiian culture, and not what Hawaiian culture really is, it's such a bizarre genre that's spawned a lot of misconceptions and tropes, but I feel like as long as people understand that stuff like this isn't actual representation or what Hawaiian culture really is and just enjoy it as the off-shoot genre it is then it's fine (although it is something I'll never personally understand the intense fascination with).
This was really wonderful. Thanks for actually delving into the iffy historical parts of Disney that they choose to ignore. Love your channel, quality is off the charts, can't wait to see what you do next!
Kansas Public Radio produces a program called “The Retro Cocktail Hour,” which the show's website describes as [serving up] “space age bachelor pad music, tiki tunes, private eye jazz and more every week on public radio stations.”
tbh, while i never saw the show nor heard the songs, the idea of it - a hundred colorful robotic birds singing catchy songs together in perfect unison is the sort of things i would have been absolutely fascinated by as a little kid. my biggest question tho is why was there a section of offenbach's tales of hoffmann in this hawaiian-themed show? and why did they remove it afterwards???
I went to Disneyland for the first time at age 8 in 1969. I loved the Enchanted Tiki Tiki Room. The birds were good, but it was seeing the mouths move on the Tiki figures that thrilled me as a child.
Awesome video. Loved hearing your rendition of 'birdies sing' at the end. Just hearing those dulcet and mellifluous tones momentarily got me out of this hellish quarantine. Cheers for that!
I'm so glad youtube decided I should find this channel, your videos are so amazing and insightful and respectful no matter what the topic, and god your singing is beautiful. I'd love to listen to a full album of your covers of disney songs, (assuming that the mouses lawyers wouldn't hound you for it), but even if you couldn't, I'm still really glad I get to hear some throughout your videos.
Thanks for watching this video, y'all!! I just wanted to reiterate that the history behind hapa-haole music and the U.S.' relationship to Hawai'i isn't really something that can be completely encapsulated in a short video essay. I highly recommend that you check out the links I put in the description if you want to learn more.
Hope you're staying safe and secure out there
As a Hawaiian and being from Hawaii, the Tiki Room is a touch racially charged and archaic.
And I absolutely love you going out of your way to pronounce the Hawaiian words as accurate as possible. Thank you so very much
brilliant as always, such an underrated channel
thank you for your kind words
one of the few dis youtubers that mentions colonialism and how integrated it is with the disney company 👉👈 let em know
It makes me particularly uncomfortable to realize that the Enchanted Tiki Room is presented to you by... Dole.
Dole was part of a coup against the sovereign nation of Hawai'i
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/americans-overthrow-hawaiian-monarchy#:~:text=In%20January%201893%2C%20a%20revolutionary,proclaimed%20Hawaii%20a%20U.S.%20protectorate.
Adam Ruin Everything segment on the Hawaiian coup which was lead by Dole.
ruclips.net/video/CzYM4ZpSDJg/видео.html
Here is an indigenous perspective:
www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/struggle-hawaiian-sovereignty-introduction
...welp, I’m not even five minutes in and I’ve already learned that I’ve been pronouncing Hawai’i wrong for 18 years.
Thanks for providing the cultural context for a Disney attraction I've always enjoyed!
Another great video! Also, I've lived in Hawai'i my entire life, I was born and raised here, and I just want to say thank you Dreamsounds for doing all this really well-done research and including (and correctly pronouncing) a lot of the history for how all this music came to be. A lot of other people I know who live here don't even know this history because this style of music isn't even that popular here, it's a thing way more popular outside Hawaii (or in very tourist-focused places, imagine that).
People don't talk enough about how the Hapa-Haole and Tiki Room aesthetics came from white culture thinking (and romanticizing in a weird way) Hawaiian culture, and not what Hawaiian culture really is, it's such a bizarre genre that's spawned a lot of misconceptions and tropes, but I feel like as long as people understand that stuff like this isn't actual representation or what Hawaiian culture really is and just enjoy it as the off-shoot genre it is then it's fine (although it is something I'll never personally understand the intense fascination with).
This was really wonderful. Thanks for actually delving into the iffy historical parts of Disney that they choose to ignore. Love your channel, quality is off the charts, can't wait to see what you do next!
I always love hearing you sing at the end.
This channel needs more love
im watching this in a Sleep induced haze but just wanna appreciate ur effort real quick! great job!
Kansas Public Radio produces a program called “The Retro Cocktail Hour,” which the show's website describes as [serving up] “space age bachelor pad music, tiki tunes, private eye jazz and more every week on public radio stations.”
Amazing as always! Can’t wait to see what’s next
tbh, while i never saw the show nor heard the songs, the idea of it - a hundred colorful robotic birds singing catchy songs together in perfect unison is the sort of things i would have been absolutely fascinated by as a little kid.
my biggest question tho is why was there a section of offenbach's tales of hoffmann in this hawaiian-themed show? and why did they remove it afterwards???
I would guess it has something to do with the bird called Fritz.
I went to Disneyland for the first time at age 8 in 1969. I loved the Enchanted Tiki Tiki Room. The birds were good, but it was seeing the mouths move on the Tiki figures that thrilled me as a child.
Awesome video. Loved hearing your rendition of 'birdies sing' at the end. Just hearing those dulcet and mellifluous tones momentarily got me out of this hellish quarantine. Cheers for that!
Just found your channel & now I think I'll have to subscribe. If you can work in cultural appropriation & Disney, the anthropologist in me is hooked!
I'm so glad youtube decided I should find this channel, your videos are so amazing and insightful and respectful no matter what the topic, and god your singing is beautiful. I'd love to listen to a full album of your covers of disney songs, (assuming that the mouses lawyers wouldn't hound you for it), but even if you couldn't, I'm still really glad I get to hear some throughout your videos.
Same man!
I love this channel! Every video is so nuanced and interesting. Also, I love his covers at the end of videos
You should talk about the country bears someday!!
Jose from Three Caballeros?
WERE THREE CABBALLEROS