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Hey, I´m a music teacher from Germany. As part of each lesson I show my students musical (and music-like) traditions from all ages and places, and let them guess where and when this music was created. A while ago I´ve shown them a haka of the All Blacks, first audio only so they could guess, then with the video. Since then, a group of 11 year olds is constantly asking me if we could perform a haka in the group. I myself would not be opposed to doing so, but I would want to do it with the necessary respect. So I thought I´d come here to ask: Would you find it disrespectful if a group of german children and their teacher performed a haka? If the responses here are positive, I´d follow this Wikihow for the actual performance. Thanks in advance for any responses.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Ka Mate being the most well known haka is also a song/waiata and can be sung as well as chanted which is probably of interest to music students.

You should be able to find some media of it.

It's worth finding a translation and exploring the meaning of the words and the history of the event for which it was composed.