Kwakwaka'wakw musicとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Kwakwaka'wakw music is the ancient art of the Indigenous or Aboriginal Kwakwaka'wakw peoples.. The music is an ancient art form, stretching back thousands of years. The music is used primarily for ceremony and ritual, and is based around percussive instrumentation, especially log, box, and hide drums, as well as rattles and whistles. The four-day Klasila festival is an important cultural display of song and dance; it occurs just before the advent of the tsetseka, or winter. A "song master" was often commissioned to invent and memorize songs for ceremonies. Unlike other social positions, the song master was not an inherited position, but chosen for his talent in creating and remembering songs. Another very important festival for the Kwakwaka'wakw people is the potlatch.