Mele on the Mauna (eBook)

Perpetuating Genealogies of Hawaiian Musical Activism on Maunakea

Joseph Keola Donaghy (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
200 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-07042-5 (ISBN)

Infos

In the summer of 2019, a group of kia'i, or protectors, made up of kānaka 'ōiwi (Native Hawaiians) and their allies came together to prevent the construction of the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) on the dormant volcano Maunakea.

In Mele on the Mauna, Joseph Keola Donaghy explores how music, and especially haku mele, or Hawaiian language composers, played a crucial role in this defense. Musicians flocked to the mauna (mountain) to perform for the kia'i and a worldwide audience via social media. Haku mele created new songs at unprecedented levels, releasing many commercially with proceeds benefiting organizations providing support services and supplies to the kia'i. This book features over 30 of the author's interviews with individuals who participated in musical activities connected with this movement, including kia'i and their supporters, composers, musicians, and community leaders. Donaghy explores Indigenous Hawaiian concepts and theories like mana (power), mo'okū'auhau and pilina (genealogy and relationships), kapu aloha (philosophical code of conduct), and aloha 'āina (love of land, patriotism), and western academic concepts like connectedness and community building, poetics, sound(ing) and silenc(e/ing), conflict, and creativity.

Mele on the Mauna illuminates how music played a powerful role in building solidarity, inspiration, and activism, reveling in the most contentious confrontations about protecting Maunakea and the outpouring of musical performances and creativity that occurred.

Autor

Joseph Keola Donaghy is Associate Professor of Music and faculty coordinator of Music Studies and the Institute of Hawaiian Music at the University of Hawai'i Maui College. He is a Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award–winning composer, performer, and producer of Hawaiian music.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
'Ōlelo Mua (Preface)
Ho'olauna (Introduction)
1. I Pa'a Maila Ke Kahua Hale: So That The Foundation Will Be Firm
2. Lohe 'Ia Mai 'Ō A 'Ō: The Soundscapes Of The Mauna
3. Kolo Ke Ewe I Ke Ewe: Rootlets Seek Out Other Rootlets
4. Kapu Aloha: Embodied, Composed, and Performed
5. Paio No Ka Pono Ē: Music and Conflict
6. Kū Ha'aheo: Birth Of An Anthem
Panina (Conclusion)
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.9.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
• Zusatzinfo: 14 b&w illus.
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Composition • Creativity • Genealogy • hawaiian folklore • Hawaiian music • Performance • Poetry • resistance • Sovereignty
• ISBN-10: 0-253-07042-2 / 0253070422
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-07042-5 / 9780253070425