The Geographic Imaginary in Hawaiian Music Culture

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dc.contributor.advisorMurton, Brian J.
dc.contributor.authorDowney, Donna Kuʻulani
dc.contributor.departmentGeography and Environment
dc.date.accessioned2009-09-09T19:40:14Z
dc.date.available2009-09-09T19:40:14Z
dc.date.issued2004-12
dc.descriptionMA University of Hawaii at Manoa 2004
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 103–123).
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis I examined a select and limited corpus of place-specific music, mele pana, composed for Hilo, Hawaiʻi. After a brief history of Hilo and Hawaiian Music Culture, the corpus is introduced with information about the lyricists, musicians, and circumstances surrounding each composition. In a comparison of traditional themes with themes from the small Hilo corpus I have specified tropes that provide a broad characterization of the place, that Native Hawaiians identify with as present and past culture. I addressed concepts of place-making and identity, symbolic resistance, and celebrating survival as they concern issues of the Native Hawaiian's loss of land, culture, and identity brought about by Western hegemony, colonization and imperialism. Mele pana is perhaps the most significant feature of the Native Hawaiian's culture, one that addresses directly their cultural and physical geography. The geographic imaginary provides continuity in which Native Hawaiians, through their lyrics and music, may conceptually view their landscape and place as their ancestors did in ancient times.
dc.format.extentxi, 123, [2] leaves, bound : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm +
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/11621
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher[Honolulu] : [University of Hawaii at Manoa], [December 2004]
dc.relationTheses for the degree of Master of Arts (University of Hawaii at Manoa). Geography.
dc.rightsAll UHM dissertations and theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission from the copyright owner.
dc.subjectHawaiian chants
dc.subjectHawaii
dc.subjectHilo
dc.subjecthistory and criticism
dc.subjectmele pana
dc.subjectplace-specific music
dc.subjectplace-making
dc.subjectidentity
dc.subjecthegemony
dc.subjectcolonization
dc.subjectimperialism
dc.subjectsongs
dc.titleThe Geographic Imaginary in Hawaiian Music Culture
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.dcmiText
local.identifier.callnumberCB5 .H3 no.3180
local.identifier.voyagerid3109643
local.thesis.degreelevelMA

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