ChuukTube: Sharing our Chuukese pride visually
February 8, 2010 by admin
Filed under Chuuk Tube, Perspectives
ChuukTube is a collection of YouTube videos showing the positive vibes of our Chuukese people as expressed through music, faith, youth, culture, sports, etc. Check out the current collection here and share your favorite videos. To share your favorite YouTube video, just scroll to the “Speak Your Mind” section of the bottom of this page and write your name (real names please), email, and paste the URL on YouTube into the website section. Please add a short commentary on the video in the comment section. We will post your video if it meets our simple approval requirement which is simply: if you can proudly show the video to your family in Chuuk, then it’s certainly worth sharing it with the world. If enough people vote for the comment, then we will post it.
Check out our collection so far…
- ChuukTube: Sharing our Chuukese pride visually
- Chuuk Tube: Relinda Singing
- Chuuk Tube: Tongei me Sufeniti Nomwun me Setin Chuuk
- Chuuk Tube: Kuttu Youth Group
- Chuuk Tube: Ozeky Singing "Emon Chosi"
- Chuuk Tube: Domestic Violence Law in Hawaii
- Operation Hailstones: Was Chuuk liberated or dominated?
- Chuuk Tube: Moch Island Youth Group
- Chuuk Tube: Cultural Dances at High School of the Pacific
- Chuuk Tube: Oneop Easter Choir
- Chuuk Tube: A collection of some of our favorites
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mean no offense to chuukese singers of today when I bring up this point. I know Chuuk has no copyright laws but I would like to ask you all what would it take for our modern singers/musicians to create their own music entirely? By that, I mean not to copy other people’s music and lyrics? In my opinion, copying other people’s music and lyrics is a sign of weakness and no originality. I find it also offensive to the original owner of the song and music since they spent weeks up to months writing those lyrics and music and bringing them together in a studio; not to mention that the original songwriters are writing songs from their experiences in life. Unlike the chuukese modern singers who just make up whatever the hell they want to sing about especially about guys charming girls. I find that distasteful. Why not sing about reforming Chuuk? Why not sing like Go-Go Peace used to sing about making comments on the political lifestyle of chuukese leaders and the conditions of our tattered state? Those would make excellent Reggae songs.
I would like to propose that Chuuk State creates a law that will ban any Chuukese artist from copying other people’s music and lyrics but not including the old chuukese artists music and lyrics. The upper hand is there will be less probability of lawsuits if and when the original owners find out about their stolen songs and music since most of the chuukese singers nowadays reside within United States jurisdiction. In addition, it gives pride to the singers/musicians/songwriters in Chuuk for creating their own original work of art.
So this is what Suraichy looks like. Great to connect the great voice with a face.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwY9JIK7JHw
This one shows the youth from Tamatam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3nRbf92d2s
Pollap youth sharing the old Pollap spirit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3nRbf92d2s