{"id":47401,"date":"2022-08-13T04:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T19:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/12\/from-garage-to-charts-how-maori-strum-helped-shape-the-sound-of-new-zealand"},"modified":"2022-08-13T04:00:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T19:00:19","slug":"from-garage-to-charts-how-maori-strum-helped-shape-the-sound-of-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47401","title":{"rendered":"From garage to charts: how M\u0101ori strum helped shape the sound of New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The distinctive guitar pattern informs many of the country\u2019s biggest hits, and remains an enduring cultural touchstone<\/p>\n<p>In late 2021, a series of videos started circulating social media: a gifted singer belting out R&amp;B and hip-hop tunes with a uniquely New Zealand take. The songs were stripped back to their barest guitar basics, peppered with M\u0101ori words and New Zealand in-jokes. Behind the renditions, there was something deeply, immediately recognisable: a guitar sound musicians call the \u201cM\u0101ori strum\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It is perhaps New Zealand\u2019s most distinctive and enduring musical sound, strummed on guitars across the country and often nicknamed jing-a-jik<em> <\/em>or rakuraku<em>, <\/em>after the cadence it produces. It is a strum heard not only at marae (meeting houses), family gatherings and competitive kapa haka (action dance) performances, but in some of the country\u2019s most beloved hits, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C2cMG33mWVY\">OMC\u2019s How Bizarre<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2019\/dec\/01\/dont-dream-its-over-crowded-house-the-beatles-and-the-making-of-a-melody\">Crowded House\u2019s Don\u2019t Dream It\u2019s Over<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/12\/from-garage-to-charts-how-maori-strum-helped-shape-the-sound-of-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The distinctive guitar pattern informs many of the country\u2019s biggest hits, and remains an enduring cultural touchstoneIn late 2021, a series of videos started circulating social media: a gifted singer belting out R&amp;B and hip-hop tunes with a unique&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3256,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,71,897,425,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-maori","category-music","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47402,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47401\/revisions\/47402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}