{"id":3,"date":"2010-03-03T11:15:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T18:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3"},"modified":"2011-02-24T21:20:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T04:20:53","slug":"stuck-on-uke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/03\/stuck-on-uke\/","title":{"rendered":"STUCK ON UKE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/jake-300x187.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6\" title=\"jake-300x187\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/jake-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Jake Shimabukuro\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jake Shimabukuro<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Driven by a new generation of aficionados, the ukulele rises again<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ukulele is cool again,\u201d declares John Schroeter, producer and author of Between the Strings: The Secret Lives of Guitars. Inspired by its simplicity and relatively low cost, amateurs and professionals alike have increasingly taken up the instrument in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Brought to Hawaii by Portuguese immigrants in the 18th century, the ukulele remained off the mainland\u2019s radar until the 1960s\u2014and even then, Tin Pan Alley throwback Tiny Tim nudged it further into novelty territory. Over the next 30 years, uke-loving rockers like George Harrison, Pete Townshend, Eddie Vedder, Elvis Costello and the Magnetic Fields\u2019 Stephin Merritt helped to gradually increase the instrument\u2019s cachet.<\/p>\n<p>Now young acts like Jake Shimabukuro and Brittni Paiva are leading a charge to introduce its charms to a new generation. \u201cWhat I wanted to do was to show the diversity of the ukulele,\u201d Paiva says of her latest album, Four Strings: The Fire Within. The word is spreading over social-networking sites like YouTube, where Shimabukuro can be found covering pop songs like Michael Jackson\u2019s \u201cThriller\u201d and Harrison\u2019s \u201cWhile My Guitar Gently Weeps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThink about what David Grisman has done for the mandolin, or what B\u00e9la Fleck has done for the banjo,\u201d says Schroeter. \u201cThey took their respective instruments out of the traditional bluegrass milieu and launched them into jazz, blues, folk, classical and beyond. This is precisely what the new generation of ukulele players are bringing to their instrument.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driven by a new generation of aficionados, the ukulele rises again \u201cThe ukulele is cool again,\u201d declares John Schroeter, producer and author of Between the Strings: The Secret Lives of Guitars. Inspired by its simplicity and relatively low cost, amateurs and professionals alike have increasingly taken up the instrument in recent years. Brought to Hawaii [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}