Mele on the Mauna

Autorentext

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 N H k Hanohano Award-winning composer, performer, and producer of Hawaiian music.

Klappentext

In the summer of 2019, a group of kia'i, or protectors, made up of kanaka 'oiwi (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'oku'auhau and pilina (genealogy and relationships), kapu aloha (philosophical code of conduct), and aloha 'aina (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.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
' lelo Mua (Preface)
Ho'olauna (Introduction)

1. I Pa'a Maila Ke Kahua Hale: So That The Foundation Will Be Firm
2. Lohe 'Ia Mai ' A ' : 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 : Music and Conflict
6. K Ha'aheo: Birth Of An Anthem
   Panina (Conclusion)
   Glossary
   Bibliography
   Index