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Removed from the article for being unencyclopedic. There's some good material which could be merged back in, though. Tuf-Kat 06:06, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
with all due respect...i would like to include a big part of music history over-looked by the above author...it is imperative to look at the pulse of the masses- to include indigenous palauans overlooked by principalities and powers in accordance with a recent trend towards patriarch society which has resulted in a multitude of land, title and status disputes between the highly misunderstood clan system of palau...
we shall begin with the protest generation of the 60's/70's who completely changed the history of indigenous palauan dance...it is a fact the cha-cha wiped the slate clean and is more or less the national dance which continues today (2005 A.D.)...the flower power generation went crazy for motown and rock-n-roll- which has been a grave misinterpretation of "country"...we can't talk about the recent history of palauan music without first considering the national influence of bass guitarist sydney mobel eichii and the legendary palauan singer, johnny...these two men set the precedent leading to the current style of what it known as "palauan reggae"...indeed, there are strains of country music which spread throughout palau which in all probability came about from intermarriage with americans during the cold-war...needless to say, at that time, many of the soldiers were from the american south and since they were on the same side as the palauan, the acceptance of the american soldier was cemented after the second world war...naturally, there were many of us who were exposed to artists such as johnny cash, loretta lynn and patsy cline...but even more influential than any single country artist were bands such as Led Zepplin and other 70's bands of the disco variety such as the Pointer Sisters...if anything disco single-handedly incorporated the dance of the cha-cha...as time passed these sounds were incorporated into a particular "island" sound of palau...they are more closely related to soca and roots and have been distinguished from the classic sounds of other islands in polynesia, micronesia and melanesia...
at the current moment in history it is (of course) much later in time and therefore, the sounds of old school hip-hop, reggae and house have already influenced and infiltrated generation x palauans across the globe (again we remain unaccounted for due to principalities and powers)...this is not to leave out heavy metal, hardcore, r&b, neo-soul, etc...indeed- the old school went through it all- shockingly, some of us went thru it more than the new school generation across the USA...i still remember the days when we thought christian hosoi before we thought of tony hawk (but that's another topic)...
in addition to being raised on 80's classics, RUN DMC, UTFO Crew and the Beastie Boys we also support dancehall reggae, hip-hop and avante-garde music such as drum n bass...meanwhile- our grandmothers still sing a little enka every once in a while and i can still recall pink lady, matsuda seiko and the diva miyako harumi...harumi-san holds a special place in the hearts of wwii and flower-children of palau...as well as some old schoolers such as myself...miyako is an enka singer who can actually get three generations of palauan women singing in unison...indeed, power-houses such as miyako harumi will always be remembered for their greatness...br/>
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