{"id":1277,"date":"2009-08-28T23:21:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T03:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2026-01-28T00:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:02:12","slug":"gwawina-singers-rising-from-the-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1277","title":{"rendered":"Gwa\u2019wina Singers: Rising From the&nbsp;Ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kwak\u00adwaka\u2019wakw [Kwak\u00adi\u00adutl] music in British Colum\u00adbia comes as a sur\u00adprise to any\u00adone who is more famil\u00adiar with the pow-wow music of the rest of Cana\u00adda. It\u2019s meant to accom\u00adpa\u00adny indoor cer\u00ade\u00admonies and the pecu\u00adliar dance dra\u00admas with elab\u00ado\u00adrate cos\u00adtumes that pre\u00advailed on the Pacif\u00adic coast.&nbsp;Orches\u00adtras of log, box, and hide drums are accom\u00adpa\u00adnied by a vari\u00adety of rat\u00adtles and whis\u00adtles play with uni\u00adson chants in Kwak\u2019wala, sup\u00adple\u00adment\u00aded by solo \u201chollers\u201d.&nbsp;It\u2019s the rat\u00adtles that car\u00adry the aura of sacred\u00adness.&nbsp;The rhythms are noth\u00ading at all like what you would hear on the plains.&nbsp;Some are rem\u00adi\u00adnis\u00adcent of Japan\u00adese forms, like gagaku. I don\u2019t know how this par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar album, by the Gwa\u2019wina Singers of Alert Bay, com\u00adpares to oth\u00ader stuff from the Coast. This whole area of music is unfa\u00admil\u00adiar ter\u00adri\u00adto\u00adry for&nbsp;me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kwak\u00adwaka\u2019wakw [Kwak\u00adi\u00adutl] music in British Colum\u00adbia comes as a sur\u00adprise to any\u00adone who is more famil\u00adiar with the pow-wow music of the rest of Cana\u00adda. It\u2019s meant to accom\u00adpa\u00adny indoor cer\u00ade\u00admonies and the pecu\u00adliar dance dra\u00admas with elab\u00ado\u00adrate cos\u00adtumes&nbsp;that&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1277\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cr-listening-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5716,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/5716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}