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"Bali Ha'i", also spelled "Bali Hai", is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. The name refers to a mystical island, visible on the horizon but not reachable, and was originally inspired by the sight of Ambae island from neighboring Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu, where author James Michener was stationed in World War II.
Makana is a Hawaiian language term meaning gift or reward. [2] It is often used as a person's name or as part of a name. Limahuli Garden and Preserve preserves the valley below. [3] It was featured in the 1958 film adaptation of the musical South Pacific as Bali Haʻi and is known by that name . [4]
"Bali Ha'i" is the sixth episode of the second season of the American television drama series Better Call Saul, the spinoff series of Breaking Bad. Written by Gennifer Hutchison and directed by Breaking Bad cinematographer Michael Slovis , "Bali Ha'i" aired on AMC in the United States on March 21, 2016.
De Becque is falling in love with a U.S. Navy nurse, Nellie Forbush, and does not want to get involved. A Navy Construction Battalion sailor (Seabee) named Luther Billis persuades Cable to visit the nearby island of Bali Hai, where he falls in love with a local girl named Liat.
A citation is needed to show that Aoba Island is what inspired Michener's Bali-ha'i. In Tales of the South Pacific , Bali-ha'i is located just off of (nearly a part of) an island called Vanicoro , which is 16 miles west of the island from which Lt. Cable is based (and Billis at one point as well).
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The impact of tiki culture on music (and vice versa) had beginnings in the creation of "hapa-haole" music, with "haole" meaning "foreigner" in the context, derived from America's expectation of native Hawaiian (and other Oceanic regions) folk music. As is the case with much of tiki culture, its genres can fall into varying themes.
Bali (English: / ˈ b ɑː l i /; ᬩᬮᬶ) is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands.East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller offshore islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nusa Ceningan to the southeast.