{"id":203213,"date":"2024-09-06T11:23:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T21:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=203213"},"modified":"2024-09-06T11:23:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T21:23:10","slug":"hawaiian-musical-activism-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/09\/06\/hawaiian-musical-activism-book\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> Maui College\u2019s Donaghy releases book on Hawaiian musical activism"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

\"Keola<\/p>\n

University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Maui College<\/a> Associate Professor Joseph Keola Donaghy\u2019s debut book, Mele On The Mauna: Perpetuating Genealogies of Hawaiian Musical Activism on Maunakea<\/em>, has been released.<\/p>\n

The book explores the role of musical performance and composition in opposing the construction of the Thirty-Meter Telescope on Maunakea. In writing Mele On The Mauna<\/em>, Donaghy interviewed approximately 35 individuals, including composers, performers, kiaʻi<\/span> and global audiences via social media. Haku mele (Hawaiian composers) created numerous new songs, many of which were commercially released to benefit the movement.<\/p>\n

“These people were following the compositional and performative practices of their ancestors before and after the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy and during the efforts to stop the U.S. military from bombing Kaho\u2018olawe in the 1970s,” Donaghy said. “Music contributed to both, documenting and performing resistance to those events.”<\/p>\n

Donaghy will discuss his research at four events across Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, starting with the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Book and Music Festival<\/a> at UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa on September 15.<\/p>\n

Published by Indiana University Press, Mele On The Mauna<\/em> is part of the “Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology” series. For more information, visit meleonthemauna.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mele on the Mauna is UH<\/abbr> Maui College Associate Professor Keola Donaghy\u2019s first book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[659,158,60],"class_list":["post-203213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-maunakea","tag-publication","tag-maui-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t