The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

Polynesian chant tradition · 1st millennium BCE–

Haka takes Polynesian chant’s genealogy-and-dance job — named text, massed voice, gesture as the verse — and recodes it as a Māori posture-dance school.

Influence

Haka

practice · 1st millennium–

Also called Māori haka

Māori posture-dance chant: shouted verse, stamp, and gesture as one event (haka taparahi, pōwhiri, later kapa haka). It hears Polynesian chant for the genealogy-and-dance chant job recoded as a named Aotearoa school. Empty extra Received/Given is historically checked: kapa haka stays on this node. Hula leftover as a Hawaiian sibling recoding, not a parent. Rugby-stage leftover as a public billing of the same practice, not a child.

Listen

  1. Ka Mate Ngāti Toa / Te Rauparaha tradition (c. 1820) YouTube
  2. Ka Mate (All Blacks / public stage) Māori and New Zealand public tradition (20th century) YouTube
  3. Haka taparahi Māori ceremonial tradition (traditional) YouTube
  4. Haka pōwhiri Māori welcome tradition (traditional) YouTube
  5. Kapa haka (stage concert) Māori kapa haka groups (living) YouTube

Passed on

Nothing in the corpus yet that this genre passed on.

Polynesian chant → Haka

form and structureperformance practicefunction and contextstrength: highscholarly consensus1st millennium–19th centuryoraldancepedagogy

Mechanism

Haka takes Polynesian chant’s genealogy-and-dance job — named text, massed voice, gesture as the verse — and recodes it as a Māori posture-dance school. Strength high. Hula leftover as a Hawaiian sibling recoding, not a parent. Rugby-stage leftover as a public billing of the same practice, not a second genre.

Evidence

Māori haka as East Polynesian chant-dance named locally (Grove).

Debate

Whether haka simply is Polynesian chant. The triangle-wide chant-dance job is the umbrella’s; the named Aotearoa school is the recoding this node tracks.

Mediators

community: Māori iwi