BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HAWAIIAN MUSIC AND DANCE

 

Compiled by

Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman

 

Updated March 15, 2004

 

N.B.  This bibliography contains citations to supplement the bibliography of Hawaiian music by Elizabeth Tatar in George Kanahele (ed.), Hawaiian Music and Musicians:  An Illustrated History (1979) and the bibliography of the hula by Amy K. Stillman in Jerry Hopkins, The Hula (1982).

 

November 2003:  The Bibliography is now organized into three sections:

  1. Published Collections of Mele Repertoire (includes songbooks with notation, and collections of poetic texts)
  2. Printed Sources
  3. Hawaiian Musical Instruments—Histories, etc.
  4. Instructional Manuals for Hawaiian Musical Instruments (slack key guitar, steel guitar, 'ukulele, etc)

 

 

A.     Published Collections of Mele Repertoire

(Includes songbooks with notation and collections of poetic texts)

 

Alama, Kimo.  Puke Mele Volume I.  Honolulu:  Kimo Alama, 1988.

 

Beamer, Nona (ed.).  Na Mele Hula:  A Collection of Hawaiian Hula Chants, Volume I.  La'ie:  The Institute for Polynesian Studies, Brigham Young University--Hawaii Campus, 1987.

Reviewed by Tatar, 1988.
Reviewed by Kaeppler, 1989.

 

----------. Na Mele Hula Volume 1. Hawaiian Hula Rituals and Chants. La'ie:  The Institute for Polynesian Studies, Brigham Young University--Hawaii Campus, 2001.

 

Beloff, Jim. Jumpin' Jim's Gone Hawaiian. Los Angeles, CA: Flea Market Music, 1999.

 

DeSilva, Kihei. He Aloha Moku o Keawe: A Collection of Songs for Hawai'i, Island of Keawe. Kailua, HI, 1997.

 

Gutmanis, June.  Na Pule Kahiko.  Honolulu:  Editions Limited, 1983.

 

Holstein. Ed. C. Ka Buke Mele o Na Himeni Hawai'i, Honolulu: Hawaiian News Company, 1897. Reprinted in Bishop Museum Classical Reprints in Hawaiian Language, 2003. Includes introduction by M. Puakea Nogelmeier, and appendices of first line index, composer index, and table of tune sources.

 

Kanahele, Pualani Kanaka'ole and Kalani Wise.  Ka Honua Ola (The Living Earth):  A collection of Pele Chants & Annotated Bibliography.  Funded by a grant to the Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, [1989].

 

Lili'uokalani. The Queen's Songbook. Honolulu: Hui Hanai, 1999.

 

Middlebrook, Ron. Ukulele Song Book. Anaheim Hills, CA: Centerstream Publishing, 2000.

 

Na Mele Aimoku, Na Mele Kupuna, a me Na Mele Ponoi o ka Moi Kalakaua I. Honolulu, 1886. Reprinted in Ke Kupu Hou Hawaiian Language Reprint Series. Honolulu: Hawaiian Historical Society, 2003. Includes introduction by M. Puakea Nogelmeier.
http://www.hawaiianhistory.org/pubs/hhsbooks.html#meleaimoku

 

Nogelmeier, M. Puakea, ed. He Lei no 'Emalani: Chants for Queen Emma Kaleleonalani. Honolulu: The Queen Emma Foundation and Bishop Museum Press, 2001.
http://www.bishopmuseum.org/cgi-bin/php.cgi/press/bookbrowse.php?db=bmp&rowid=72&full=1

 

Pukui, Mary Kawena, transl. Nä Mele Welo:  Songs of Our Hawaiian Heritage. Bishop Museum Special Publication 88.  Honolulu:  Bishop Museum Press, 1995.

 

Testa, F. J. Buke Mele Lahui [Book of National Songs]. Honolulu, 1895. Reprinted in Ke Kupu Hou Hawaiian Language Reprint Series. Honolulu: Hawaiian Historical Society, 2003. Includes introduction by M. Puakea Nogelmeier and Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman,
http://www.hawaiianhistory.org/pubs/hhsbooks.html#meleaimoku

 

Toriyama, Chikao. Musical Images of Hawai'i. Honolulu: Chikao Toriyama, 1996.

 

Whitcomb, Ian. Ukulele Heaven. Songs from The Golden Age of the Ukulele. Pacific, MO: Mel Bay, 1999.

 

B. Printed Sources

 

Akindes, Fay Yokomizo. "Sudden Ruch: Na Mele Paleoleo (Hawaiian Rap) as Liberatory Discourse." Discourse 23/1 (Winter 2001), 82-98.

 

Ariyoshi, Rita, with excerpts from the unpublished writings of Maiki Aiu, edited by Lee Puakeala Mann. Hula is Life: The Story of Halau Hula o Maiki. Honolulu: Maiki Aiu Building Corporation, 1998.

 

Balme, Christopher. "Staging the Pacific: Framing Authenticity in Performances for Tourists at the Polynesian Cultural Center. Theatre Journal 50 (1998), 53-70.

 

----------.  "Dressing the Hula: Iconography, Performance and Cultural Identity Formation in late nineteenth century Hawaii." Paideuma 45 (1999), 233-255.

 

Bambrick, Nikki and Jeremy Miller.  "Exotic Hula:  'Hawaiian' Dance Entertainment in post-War Australia."  Perfect Beat 2/1 (July 1994), 68-87.

 

Bandy, David.  "The Royal Hawaiian Band:  America's Royal Legacy."  IGEB Mitteilungsblatt 1989/3, 167-73.

 

----------.  "Bandmaster Henry Berger and the Royal Hawaiian Band,"  Hawaiian Journal of History 24 (1990), 69-90.

 

Basten, Fred E., and Charles Phoenix. Leis, Luaus and Alohas: The Lure of Hawaii in the Fifties. Honolulu: Island Heritage Publishing, 1999.

 

Beck, Emily Johnson.  "The Musical Heritage of Hawaii."  M.Mus. (Music Education) thesis, University of Michigan, 1969.

 

Blackburn, Mark. Hula Girls and Surfer Boys, 1870-1940. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2000.

 

Buck, Elizabeth Bentzel.  "The Hawaii Music Industry," Social Process in Hawaii 31 (1984-85), 137-53.

 

----------.  Paradise Remade:  The Politics of Culture and History in Hawai'i.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1993.

 

----------.  "A Brief History of Contemporary Music Production in Hawai'i," in Whose Master's Voice? ed. Alison Ewbank and Fouli Papageorgiou (Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 1998), 88-97.

 

Byrd, Jerry. It Was a Trip: On Wings of Music. Anaheim Hills: Centerstream Publishing, 2003.

 

Carmack, Ka'ala. "Hawai'i--Art Music." In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 9, Australia and the Pacific Island, ed. Adrienne Kaeppler and J. W. Love (1998), 923-25.

 

Charlot, John.  "The Application of Form and Redaction Criticism to Hawaiian Literature,"  Journal of the Polynesian Society 86(1977), 479-501.

 

----------.  Review of Barrere, Pukui and Kelly, Hula:  Historical Perspectives (1980).  Ha'ilono Mele 6 (no. 2, February 1980), 11-12.

 

----------.  "William Charles Lunalilo's ``Alekoki' as an Example of Cultural Synthesis in Nineteenth Century Hawaiian Literature,"  Journal of the Polynesian Society 91(1982), 435-44.

 

----------.  "A Pattern in Three Hawaiian Chants,"  Journal of American Folklore 96(1983), 64-8.

 

----------.  Chanting the Universe.  n.p.:  Emphasis International, 1983.

 

----------.  The Hawaiian Poetry of Religion and Politics.  Institute for Polynesian Studies, Monograph Series No. 5.  [Laie, Hawaii]:  Brigham Young University--Hawaii Campus, 1985.

 

---------.  Review of Luomala, Hula Ki'i.  Journal of the Polynesian Society 94 (1985), 451-3.

 

Congdon-Martin, Douglas. Aloha Spirit: Hawaiian Art and Popular Design, in cooperation with the California Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, California. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 1998.

 

Cook, Christina Mauliola.  "The Art of the Hula as seen in the dance of 'Iolani Luahine."  Unpublished manuscript, University of Hawaii (Hawaiian Collection), 1983.

 

----------.  "The Art of the Hula As Seen in the Dance of 'Iolani Luahine."  UCLA Journal of Dance Ethnology 9 (1985), 32-45.

 

Coyle, Jackey and Rebecca Coyle.  "Aloha Australia:  Hawaiian Music in Australia (1920-55)."  Perfect Beat 2/2 (Jan. 1995), 31-63.

 

Crabbe, Michael.  "Hula's Ginger Blossom Maiki Aiu Lake, 'Mother of the Hawaiian Renaissance.'" Voice of Hawaii 24/1 (Jan. 1995), 1, 4, 5.

 

----------.  "The Evolution of the Hula, Part I, Ekahi."  Voice of Hawaii 24/3 (March 1995), 1, 7.

 

----------.  "The Evolution of the Hula, Part II, Elua."  Voice of Hawaii 24/4 (April 1995), 1, 6.

 

----------.  "Look to the Hula Resources."  Voice of Hawaii 24/5 (May 1995), 1, 6, 8.

 

Desmond, Jane C.  "Hula Hips and Smiling Lips:  Americans Abroad At Home."  Proceedings Society of Dance History Scholars.  Fifteenth Annual Conference, University of California, Riverside, California, 14-15 February 1992.  pp. 37-45.

 

----------. "Invoking the 'Native': Body Politics in Contemporary Hawaiian Tourist Shows." TDR: The Drama Review 41/4 (1998), 83-109.

 

----------. "Picturing Hawai'i: The 'Ideal' Native and the Origins of Tourism, 1880-1915."  positions 7 (1999), 459-501.

 

----------. Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

 

Donaldson, Beth Allegra Kahikina. "Ka Makana Hula: "The gift of Hula": The Proclamation and Healing of the Hawaiian Hula." M.A. Thesis, Pacific School of Religion, 1991.

 

Dorton, Lilikala.  Review of Katharine Luomala, Hula Ki'i:  Hawaiian Puppetry.  Pacific History Bibliography & Comment, 1985.  pp. 61-2.

 

DuPuis, Reshela. "Hawaiian Documentary Videos as Political Tools." In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 9, Australia and the Pacific Island, ed. Adrienne Kaeppler and J. W. Love (1998), 221-22..

 

Engle, Robert.  "The Changing Concept of Desirable Tone Quality in Samoan Choral Music," Choral Journal 33/10 (May 1993), 37-42.

 

Fitzgerald, Jon and Philip Hayward. "Tropical Cool: The Arthur Lyman Sound." In Widening the Horizon: Exoticism in Post-War Popular Music, edited by Philip Hayward. Sydney: John Libbey, 1999, pp. 94-113.

 

Fong, Randie K. "Music and Education: Hawai'i--Kamehameha Schools." In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 9, Australia and the Pacific Island, ed. Adrienne Kaeppler and J. W. Love (1998), 275-77.

 

Freeman, Linton C.  "The Changing Functions of a Folksong."  Journal of American Folklore 70(1957), 215-20.

 

Haar, Francis.  Iolani.  Honolulu:  Topgallant, 1985.

 

Hall, Dale.  "Hawaiian Music--Past and Present,"  Journal of the West 22(1983), 65-9.

 

Hammond, Joyce D. "Photography, Tourism and the Kodak Hula Show." Visual Anthropology 14 (2001), 1-32.

 

Hamrin, Tina. "The Hula in Hawaii and the Hawaiian Movement." Temenos 30 (1994).

 

Hansen, Harald Alvin.  "Ancient Music of Hawaii."  M. Mus. dissertation [sic], Catholic University of America, 1960.

 

Hickman, Roger.  "Hawaii's First Opera,"  Journal of the West 22(1983), 58-64.

 

Hood, Mantle.  Review of Kanahele, ed., Hawaiian Music and Musicians:  An Illustrated History.  American Music 1(1983), 86-7.

 

Hopkins, Jerry.  The Hula.  Hong Kong:  Apa Productions, Ltd, 1982.

 

Hosokawa, Shuhei.  "East of Honolulu:  Hawaiian Music in Japan from the 1920s to the 1940s."  Perfect Beat 2 (1994), 51-67.

 

Houghton, Alan. Heartbeat of Hawai'i: Alan Houghton's Photographic Hula Collection. Honolulu: Island Heritage Publishing, 1998.

 

Iga, Carolyn Sanae.  "A Study of the History of Hawaiian Music in relation to the development of the Christian faith."  Master of Church Music thesis, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1991.

 

Imada, Adria. "Hawaiians on Tour: Hula Circuits Through the American Empire." American Quarterly 56 (2004), 111-149.

 

Itagaki, Jan and Lovina LePendu, eds. Nänä I Nä Loea Hula: Look to the Hula Resources [vol. 2]. Honolulu: Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Society, Inc., 1997.

 

Jacobs, Ron.  "Richard Kauhi:  Father of Contemporary Hawaiian Music."  Voice of Hawaii 21/8 (Aug. 1992), 1, 7, 8; 21/9 (Sept. 1992), 1, 5, 7, 8; 21/10 (Oct. 1992), 1, 7, 8; 21/11 (Nov. 1992), 1, 5, 7, 8.

 

Johnson, Rubellite Kawena.  Review of Tatar, Nineteenth-Century Hawaiian Chant.  Pacific Studies 7 (1983), 184-8.

 

Junker, Jay W. Entries in The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 9, Australia and the Pacific Island, ed. Adrienne Kaeppler and J. W. Love, 1998.

 

"Popular Music: Hawai'i,"162-167.

"Musical Instruments--Steel Guitars," 398-90.

 

Kaeppler, Adrienne L.  Review of McLean, An Annotated Bibliography of Oceanic Music and Dance.  Ethnomusicology 23 (1979), 142-3.

 

----------.  Polynesian Dance, with a Selection for Contemporary Performances.  Honolulu:  Alpha Delta Kappa, 1983.

Reviewed by Kealiinohomoku, 1986.
Reviewed by Stillman, 1985, 1987-88.

 

----------.  "Spontaneous Choreography:  Improvisation in Polynesian Dance," Yearbook for Traditional Music 19 (1987), 13-22.

 

----------.  "Pacific Festivals and Ethnic Identity."  In Time Out Of Time:  Essays on the Festival, edited by Alessandro Falassi.  Albuquerque:  University of New Mexico Press, 1987, pp. 162-70.

 

----------.  "Pacific Festivals and the Promotion of Identity, Politics, and Tourism."  Come Mek Me Hol' Yu Han':  The Impact of Tourism on Traditional Music, [edited by Adrienne Kaeppler and Olive Lewin].  Kingston, Jamaica:  Jamaica Memory Bank, 1988, pp. 121-38.

 

----------.  Review of Nona Beamer, Na Mele Hula:  A Collection of Hawaiian Hula Chants.  Folk Music Journal ?? (1989), 653-5.

 

----------.  "The Use of Archival Film in an Ethnohistoric Study of Persistence and Change in Hawaiian Hula."  In Music and Dance of Aboriginal Australia and the South Pacific:  The Effects of Documentation on the Living Tradition, edited by Alice Marshall Moyle (Sydney:  University of Sydney, 1992), 110-29.

 

----------.  Hula Pahu:  Hawaiian Drum Dances.  Vol. 1  Ha'a and Hula Pahu:  Sacred Movements.  Bishop Museum Bulletin in Anthropology 3.  Honolulu:  Bishop Museum Press, 1993.

 

----------.  "Ritual Theater, and Spectacle for Gods and Mortals:  A Personal View of Classical Hawaiian and Japanese Dance."  Island Creativity and Tradition--Japan and Hawai'i.  A symposium on Japanese dance and hula kahiko presented by Onoe Kikunobu Dance Company in cooperation with the University of Hawai'i at Manoa Department of Theatre and Dance and Summer Session.  July 1994.  pp. 13-30.

 

----------.  "Visible and Invisible in Hawaiian Dance."  In Human Action Signs in Cultural Context:  The Visible and the Invisible in Movement and Dance, edited by Brenda Farnell (Metuchen, NJ:  Scarecrow Press, 1995), 31-43.

 

----------.  Entries in The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 9, Australia and the Pacific Island, ed. Adrienne Kaeppler and J. W. Love, 1998.

 

"Hawaiian Festivals," 66-67.

"Musical Ensembles: Hawai'i [Royal Hawaiian Band]," 132-34.

"Hawaiian Land, Politics, and Music," 219-221.

"Drums of East Polynesia [pahu]," 384-85.

"Hawai'i--Dance," 925-28.

 

---------- and Jacob W. Love, eds. Australia and the Pacific Islands. Vol. 9 of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998. Entries on Hawai'i and Hawaiian music by Ka'ala Carmack, Reshela DuPuis, Randie K. Fong, Jay W. Junker, Adrienne Kaeppler, Betty Kam, Anthony J. Palmer, Karen Peacock, Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman, C. Kati Szego.

 

Kahumoku, George, Jr. A Hawaiian Life. Lahaina: Kealia Press, 2001.

 

Kakihara, Lynne Keala. "Hula across the Pacific: A look at Hula Halau Mehana O Ka La of Tokyo." M.A. thesis (Asian Studies), University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 1997.

 

Kaleiokalanakila.  See Crabbe, Michael.

 

Kam, Betty. "Archives and Institutional Resources: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum." In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 9, Australia and the Pacific Island, ed. Adrienne Kaeppler and J. W. Love (1998), 968-70.

 

Kamahele, Momi.  "Hula as Resistance."  forward motion 11/3 (July 1992), 40-46.

 

----------. "'Ilio'ulaokalani: Defending Native Hawaiian Culture." Amerasia 26/2 (2000), 38-65.

 

Kamakahi, Jeffrey J. and Albert B. Robillard. "Traversing Inter-Ethnic Social Orders: Native Hawaiian Song Collections." Social Process in Hawaii 35 (1994), 213-230.

 

Kanahele, George S. (ed.).  Hawaiian Music and Musicians:  An Illustrated History.  Honolulu:  University Press of Hawaii, 1979.

 

Kanahele, Pualani Kanaka'ole. Holo Mai Pele. Companion Book to "Dance in America: Holo Mai Pele," broadcast on PBS' Great Performances in October, 2001. Honolulu and Hilo: Co-published by Pacific Islanders in Communications and Edith Kanaka'ole Foundation, 2001.

 

Kasher, Robert Kamohalu and Burl Burlingame.  Da Kine Sound:  Conversations with the People who Create Hawaiian Music, Volume One.  Hawaii:  Press Pacifica,            1978.

 

Kealiinohomoku, Joann W.  Review of Ha'aku'i Pele i Hawai'i (12" 33-1/3 LP disc Hula HS-560.)  Ethnomusicology 24 (1980), 335-6.

 

----------.  "Music and Dance of the Hawaiian and Hopi Peoples."  In Becoming Human Through Music:  The Wesleyan Symposium on the Perspectives of Social Anthropology in the Teaching and Learning of Music.  Middletown, CT:  Wesleyan University, 1985.

 

----------. "Hula Space and its Transmutations."  In Dance as Cultural Heritage Vol. 2, edited by Betty True Jones.  Dance Research Annual XV (1985), 11-21.

 

----------.  Review of Kaeppler, Polynesian Dance.  Ethnomusicology 30 (1986), 579-80.

 

----------.  Review of Tatar, Nineteenth-Century Hawaiian Chant.  Ethnomusicology 31(1987), 143-5.

 

Kelly, Marion.  Pele and Hi'iaka visit the Sites at Ke'e, Ha'ena, Island of Kaua'i.  Bishop Museum Publications in Education 1.  Honolulu:  Bishop Museum Press, 1984.

 

Kennedy, Raymond.  Review of McLean, An Annotated Bibliography of Oceanic Music and Dance.  Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council 9 (1979), 106.

 

Klarr, Caroline K. Hawaiian Hula and Body Ornamentation 1778 to 1858. Los Osos, CA: Bearsville Press and Cloud Mountain Press, 1996.

 

Kohl, Randy.  "Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar:  Taro-Patched Tourism."  Paper presented to the Thirtieth World Conference of the ICTM, Schladming, Austria, 1989.  Unpublished manuscript, University of Hawaii Library.

 

Kong, Sam. Buckaloose: Kaimuki School Days with Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 2002.

 

Kurokawa, Yoko. "Hula Halau in Japan: A Case Study of Hula Schools in Tokyo." Ethnomusicology Online, 1997. http://research.umbc.edu/efhm/2/kurokawa/index.html

 

Laes, Ron. The Art of Hula. Volume 1: Laka. Kahului, HI: Goldsmiths Publishing, 1996.

 

Lewis, George H.  "Da Kine Sounds:  The Function of Music as Social Protest in the New Hawaiian Renaissance,"  American Music 2 (1984), 38-52.

 

----------.  "Beyond the reef:  role conflict and the professional musician in Hawaii."  Popular Music 5. Continuity and Change.  Eds. Richard Middleton and David Horn.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1985.  pp. 189-98.

 

----------.  "The Role of Music in Popular Social Movements: A Theory and Case Study of the Island State of Hawaii, USA," International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 16 (1985), 153-62.

 

----------.  "Music, Culture and the Hawaiian Renaissance." Popular Music and Society 10/3 (1986), 47-53.

 

----------.  "A Soul Awakening:  Social Identity in Hawaiian Music."  Culture xx (Nov. 1990), 618-29.

 

----------.  "Storm Blowing from Paradise:  Social Protest and Oppositional Ideology in Popular Hawaiian Music," Popular Music 10/1 (1991), 53-67.

 

----------.  "Don' Go Down Waikiki:  Social Protest and Popular Music in Hawaii," in Rockin' the Boat:  Mass Music and Mass Movements, edited by Reebee Garofalo (n.p.:  South End Press, 1992), 171-82.

 

----------. "Style in Revolt: Music, Social Protest, and the Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance." International Social Science Review

 

Linnekin, Jocelyn.  "Defining Tradition: Variations on the Hawaiian Identity."  American Ethnologist 10 (1983), 241-52.

 

Luomala, Katharine.  Hula Ki'i:  Hawaiian Puppetry.  Hawaii:  Institute for Polynesian Studies, 1984.

Reviewed by Dorton, 1985.

 

McGregor, Davianna Pomaika'i. "'Au'a 'ia" to 'Mele o Kaho'olawe': Voices of Power and Vision." In New Visions in Asian American Studies: Diversity, Community, Power, edited by Franklin Ng, Judy Yung, Stephen S. Fugita and Elaine H. Kim. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 1994, pp. 253-270.

 

McLean, Mervyn.  An Annotated Bibliography of Oceanic Music and Dance.  Polynesian Society Memoir No. 41.  Wellington:  The Polynesian Society, 1977.

Reviewed by Kaeppler, 1979.
Reviewed by Kennedy, 1977.

           

----------.  Supplement:  An Annotated Bibliography of Oceanic Music and Dance.  Auckland:  The Polynesian Society, 1981.

Reviewed by Tatar, 1983.

 

----------.  Weavers of Song: Polynesian Music and Dance. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999.

 

Mele and Hula Symposium, Wailoa, Hawai'i April 22, 1979.  Transcript of symposium. Typescript, Hawaiian Collection, Univ. of Hawaii.

 

Mendheim, Beverly A.  "Hawaiian Chant:  It's developing role in music education."  Unpublished manuscript, M.A. terminal project, University of Hawaii, 1972.

 

Millard, Daryl John, S.V.D.  "Music Profile of a Church Community at Keaukaha, Hawai'i:  Malia Puka o Kalani Catholic Church." M.A. thesis, University of Hawaii, 1979.

 

Morrison, Boone and Malcolm Naea Chun.  Images of the Hula.  Volcano, Hawaii:  Summit Press, 1983.

 

Murray, Patricia Lei Anderson. How to Hula for Body, Mind & Spirit. Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 1997.

 

Norman, Bob.  "Hawaiian Folk Music:  In the Real Old Style," Sing Out! 30(1984), 2-11.

 

Osorio, Jonathan Kamakawiwo'ole.  "Songs of Our Natural Selves:  The Enduring Voice of Nature in Hawaiian Music."  In Pacific History:  Papers from the 8th Pacific History Association Conference edited by Donald H. Rubinstein (Mangilao, Guam:  University of Guam Press and Micronesian Area Research Center, 1992), 429-32.

 

---------- and Kanalu G. T. Young. Lei Mele No Pauahi: Music, Past and Present, at Kamehameha Schools. Honolulu: Kamehameha Schools Press, 1997.

 

Palmer, Anthony J. "Music and Education: Hawai'i." In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 9, Australia and the Pacific Island, ed. Adrienne Kaeppler and J. W. Love (1998), 272-75.

 

Peacock, Karen M.  "Music in Hawaii Then and Now."  Unpublished ms., University of Hawaii (Hawaiian Collection), 1973.

 

----------.  "Archives and Institutional Resources: University of Hawai'i." In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 9, Australia and the Pacific Island, ed. Adrienne Kaeppler and J. W. Love (1998), 970-71.

 

Perkins, Lily Leialoha Apo Mark.  "The Aesthetics of Stress in 'Olelo and Oli:  Notes Toward a Theory of Hawaiian Oral Arts."  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1978.

 

Peterson, Barbara Bennett, ed.  Notable Women of Hawaii.  Honolulu:  University of Hawaii Press, 1984. 

(biographies of deceased women, including Helen Desha Beamer, Martha Warren Beckwith, Edith Kenao Kanaka'ole, Liliuokalani, Mary Jane Montano, Emma Ahuena Davison Taylor, Kinnie [Jane] Kapahu Wilson.)

 

Reece, Kim Taylor. Hula Kahiko: Images of Hawaii's Ancient Hula. Sacred Falls, HI: Kim Taylor Reece Productions, 1997.

 

Riveira, Berna-Lee Lehua. "Hawaiian Women and the Self-Determination of a People." Voices: The Hawai'i Women's Newsjournal. 4/2 (Winter 1990-91), 6-20.

 

Robertson, Carol E.  "The Mahu of Hawai'i."  Feminist Studies 15, no. 2 (Summer 1989), 313-26.

 

----------.  "The Ethnomusicologist as Midwife," in Musicology and Difference:  Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship," edited by Ruth A. Solie (Berkeley:  Univ. of California Press,1993), 107-24.

 

Ronck, Ronn.  Celebration:  A Portrait of Hawai'i Through The Songs Of The Brothers Cazimero.  Honolulu:  Mutual Publishing, 1984.

 

Sebree, Shirley.  Pele's Tears:  Reclaiming the Lost Gems of Hawaiian Music in Western Music Styles.  New York:  Vantage Press, 1994.

 

Seiden, Allan. The Art of the Hula. Honolulu: Island Heritage Publishing, 1999.

 

Sereno, Aeko.  "Images of the Hula Dancer and 'Hula Girl':  1778-1970."  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hawaii, 1990.

 

Shennan, Jennifer and Allan Thomas.  "Emergent Dance Forms in Polynesia," Asia Pacific Voices:  Selected Papers from the Asia Pacific Festival and Composers' Conference.  Wellington:  Department of Music, Victoria University of Wellington, and Composers' Association of New Zealand, 1986.  pp. 58-67.

 

Silva, Glenn Paul.  "Traditional Hawaiian Mele Hula by James Ka'upena Wong, Jr.:  An Analysis with Emphasis on Glides and Duration and Stress of Vowels."  M.A. thesis, University of Hawaii, 1982.

 

----------.  "A Comparative Study of the Hymnody of Two Hawaiian Protestant Denominations:  Ho'omana Ia Iesu and Ho'omana Na'auao."  Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. of Washington, 1989.

 

Silva, Kalena. "Some Notes on Traditional Hawaiian Music." In Malama: Hawaiian Land and Water, ed. Dana Naone Hall (Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1985),   78-81

 

----------.  "Hawaiian Chant:  Dynamic Cultural Link or Atrophied Relic?"  Journal of the Polynesian Society 98 (1989), 85-90.

 

----------.  "Culture, Change and Hawaiian Music."  Ethnies vol. 4 no. 8-10, 114-21

 

----------.  "Hawaiian Mele Kahea:  Written Examples Revitalize Oral Tradition,"  MELUS 16/1 (1989-90), 15-19.

 

Silva, Noenoe K. "He Kanawai E Ho'opau I Na Hula Kuolo Hawai'i: The Political Economy of Banning the Hula." Hawaiian Journal of History 34 (2000), 29-48.

 

 

----------.  "Talking Back to Law and Empire: Hula in Hawaiian-Language Literature in 1861." In Law and Empire in the Pacific: Fiji and Hawai'i, ed. Salley Engle Merry and Donald Brenneis, pp. 101-121. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2004.

 

Silva, Wendell and Alan Suemori, eds.  Nana I Na Loea Hula. Honolulu:  Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts, Inc., 1984.

 

Singletary, Milly.  Hilo Hattie:  A Legend In Our Time.  Honolulu:  M F S, 1979.

 

Smith, Emerson C.  Know Hawaii's Songs.  Honolulu:  Emerson C. Smith, 1980.

 

Solberg, S. E.  "Hawaiian Lyrics, Chant, and Dance."  Melus 6(Summer 1979), 41-5.

 

----------.  "Hawaiian Music, Poetry and Dance:  Reflections on Protection, Preservation and Pride."  Melus 10 (Spring 1983), 39-64.

 

Spurrier, Joseph Howard.  "History of School Music in the Hawaiian Islands to 1950."  Ph.D. dissertation, Utah State University, 1963.

 

Stagner, Ishmael.  "Na Makua Mahalo I'a--Mormon Contributions to Hawaiian Music."  Proceedings of the First Annual Conference Mormon History in the Pacific, Brigham Young University--Hawaii Campus, 1980.  pp. 56-8.

 

----------.  "Hawaiian Hula Genealogies:  The Laie Connection."  Proceedings Second Annual Converence Mormon History in the Pacific, Brigham Young University --Hawaii Campus, 1981.  pp. 113-5.

 

----------.  "Hawaiian Music and Dance:  Some Mormon Influences."  Proceedings Third Annual Conference Mormon History in the Pacific, Brigham Young University--Hawaii Campus, 1982.  pp. 62-4.

 

----------.  Hula!  Laie, Hawaii: The Institute for Polynesian Studies, 1985.

 

Stender, Barbara L. L. and Robert K. Stender, Jr.  "'Au'a 'Ia': Translation and Study of the Chant."  Unpublished ms., University of Hawaii (Hawaiian Collection), 1979.

 

Stillman, Amy K.  "Young composers have trouble with Hawaiian language."  Ha'ilono Mele 4/7 (July 1978),
6-7.

 

----------.  "A new look at Christmas mele, past and present."  Ha'ilono Mele 4/12 (December 1978), 6-9.

 

----------.  "Hawaiian Dance Terminology:  More on Hibiscus HLS-71."  Ethnomusicology 25(1981), 497-9.

 

----------.  Review of Barrere, Pukui and Kelly, Hula:  Historical Perspectives.  Dance Research Journal 13 (1981), 41-2.

 

----------.  "The Hula Ku'i:  A Tradition in Hawaiian Music and Dance."  M.A. thesis, University of Hawaii, 1982.

 

----------.  Review of Na Leo Hawai'i Kahiko:  Voices of Old Hawai'i (Two 12" 33-1/3 LP discs, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum ARCS-1.)  Ethnomusicology 27 (1983), 397-8.

 

----------.  Review of The Melelani Seranaders, Kaulana 'O Ni'ihau (12" 33-1/3 LP disc, Hula HS-579).  Ethnomusicology 27 (1983), 569-70.

 

----------.  Review of George Kuo, Nahenahe:  Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar (12" 33-1/3 LP disc, Hula HS-576).  Ethnomusicology 28 (1984), 588-9.

 

----------.  Review of Ka Po'e Hula Kahiko (videotape, Bishop Museum Audio-Recording Collections).  Ethnomusicology 29 (1985), 532-3.

 

----------.  Review of Kaeppler, Polynesian Dance.  Pacific Arts Newsletter 20 (1985), 30-31.

 

----------.  "Published Hawaiian Songbooks,"  MLA Notes 44 (1987), 221-39.

 

----------.  Review of Stoneburner, Hawaiian Music:  An Annotated Bibliography.  Sonneck Society Bulletin 13 (1987), 75-6.

 

----------.  Review of Kaeppler, Polynesian Dance.  Dance Research Journal 19 (1987-88), 50-1.

 

----------.  "Hawaiian Music:  An Index of Published Songbooks.  An Interim Printout of a Project to Index Published Hawaiian Songbooks."  Typescript, Hawaiian Collection, Univ. of Hawaii, 1988.

 

----------.  "Images and Realities:  Visitors' Responses to Tahitian Music and Dance."  Come Mek Me Hol' Yu Han':  The Impact of Tourism on Traditional Music [edited by Adrienne Kaeppler and Olive Lewin].  Kingston, Jamaica:  Jamaica Memory Bank, 1988, pp. 145-66.

 

----------.  "History Reinterpreted in Song:  The Case of the Hawaiian Counterrevolution."  Hawaiian Journal of History 23 (1989), 1-30.

 

----------.  "Hawaiian Chants:  An Index of Published Sources and Audio Recordings."  Typescript, Bishop Museum Library, and Hawaiian Collection, Univ. of Hawaii, 1990.

 

----------.  Review of Hawaiian Rainbow (film and videotape) and Kumu Hula:  Keepers of a Culture (film and videotape), Mug-Shot Productions.  Ethnomusicology 35/1 (1991), 168-70.

 

----------.  Review of Hula Pahu:  Hawaiian Drum Dances.  I. Ha'a and Hula Pahu:  Sacred Movements by Adrienne L. Kaeppler; II. The Pahu:  Sounds of Power by Elizabeth Tatar; and Hawaiian Drum Dance Chants:  Sounds of Power in Time (sound recording). Yearbook for Traditional Music 23 (1991), 133-5.

 

----------.  "Hawaiian Hymns:  An Index of Protestant Hawaiian-Language Hymnals."  Typescript, 1993.  Available at University of Hawaii, Bishop Museum Library, Hawaiian Mission Museum Library, and Hawaiian Historical Society Library.

 

----------.  "Supplement To Hawaiian Music:  An Index of Published Songbooks."  Typescript, 1993.  Available at Hawaiian Collection, Univ. of Hawaii.

 

----------.  "Prelude to a Comparative Investigation of Protestant Hymnody in Polynesia."  Yearbook for Traditional Music 25 (1993), 89-99.

 

----------.  "'Na Lei o Hawai'i':  On Hula Songs, Floral Emblems, Island Princesses, and Wahi Pana."  Hawaiian Journal of History 28 (1994), 87-108.

 

----------.  "No Ka Po'e I Aloha I Ka 'Aina:  Poetics of the Hula Ku'i."  Shunzo Sakamaki Extraordinary Lecture, presented at University of Hawai'i, July 1994.  Typescript, Hawaiian Collection, Univ. of Hawaii.

 

----------.  "Notating the Unnotatable:  Incorporating Performance Practice into the Descriptive Representation of Modern Hawaiian Hula Songs."  In Themes and Variations:  Writings on Music in Honor of Rulan Chao Pian, edited by Bell Yung and Joseph S. C. Lam (Cambridge, MA and Hong Kong:  Department of Music, Harvard University, and The Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994), 145-63.

 

----------.  "Of What Use Are Published Hawaiian Songbooks?  Interpreting the notated presentation of modern Hawaiian songs."  Perfect Beat 2/2 (Jan. 1995), 64-82.

 

----------.  "Not All Hula Songs Are Created Equal:  Reading the Historical Nature of Repertoire in Polynesia."  Yearbook for Traditional Music 27 (1995), 1-12.

 

----------.  "Beyond Bibliography:  Interpreting Hawaiian-Language Protestant Hymn Imprints."  Ethnomusicology 40 (1996), 469-88.

 

----------.  "Competition Hula: An Index of Mele and Hälau in the King Kamehameha Hula Competition (1982-1995) and the Merrie Monarch Hula Competition (1980-1995)." Typescript, 1996. Available at Hawaiian Collection, Univ. of Hawaii.

 

----------.  "Hawaiian Hula Competitions: Event, Repertoire, Performance, Tradition." Journal of the American Folklore Society 109/434 (1996), 357-80.

 

----------.  "Queen Kapi'olani's Lei Chants."  Hawaiian Journal of History 30 (1996), 119-52.

 

----------.  "Hula Hits, Local Music, and Local Charts: Some Dynamics of Popular Hawaiian Musics." In Sound Alliances: Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Politics and Popular Music in the Pacific, ed. Philip Hayward. London: Cassell, 1998,  89-103.

 

----------.  Sacred Hula: Interpreting the Historical Hula 'Äla'apapa. Bulletin in Anthropology No. 8. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1998.

 

----------. Entries in The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 9: Australia and the Pacific Islands. Vol. 9 of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, ed. Adrienne Kaeppler and J. W. Love, 1998.

 

"Musical Migrations: The U.S. Mainland,"116-119.

"Musical Instruments: Slack-Key Guitars," 388-89.

"Musical Instruments: Ukulele," 390-91.

"Hawai'i," 914-23.

"Recordings of Oceanic Music--East Polynesia," 997-99.

 

----------. "Aloha 'Aina: New Perspectives on 'Kaulana Na Pua.'" Hawaiian Journal of History 33 (1999), 83-99.

 

----------. "Globalizing Hula." Yearbook for Traditional Music 31 (1999), 57-66.

 

----------. "Re-membering the History of Hawaiian Hula." In Cultural Memory: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Postcolonial Pacific, edited by Jeannette Marie Mageo. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001, pp. 187-204.

 

----------. “Of the People Who Love the Land: Vernacular History in the Poetry of Modern Hawaiian Hula.” Amerasia  28/3 (2002), 85-108.

 

----------.  "Resurrecting Archival Poetic Repertoire for Hawaiian Hula." In Handle With Care: Engagement and Responsibility in the Return of Ethnographic Materials, ed. Sjoerd Jaarsma. ASAO Monograph Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.

 

----------. "Passed from the Past: Women and the Perpetuation of Hawaiian Music and Hula." In Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: An Historical Anthology, ed. Shirley Hune and Gail M. Nomura, pp. 205-218. New York: New York U Press, 2003.

 

Stone, Scott C. S.  From a Joyful Heart: The Life and Music of R. Alexander Anderson. Honolulu: Island Heritage Publishing, 2001.

 

Stoneburner, Bryan C.  Hawaiian Music:  An Annotated Bibliography.  Music Reference Collection, Number 10.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 1986.

Reviewed by Stillman, 1987.
Reviewed by Tatar, 1989.

 

----------.  Review of Tatar, Strains of Change.  Hawaiian Journal of History 22 (1988), 287-9.

 

Szego, C. K. "Interpreting timbre in Hawai'i." In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 9, Australia and the Pacific Island, ed. Adrienne Kaeppler and J. W. Love (1998), 299-300.

 

----------.  "Singing Hawaiian and the Aesthetics of (In)Comprehensibility." In Global Pop, Local Language, ed. Harris M. Berger and Michael Thomas Carroll, pp. 291-328. Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi, 2003.

 

Takamine, Vicky Holt.  "Hula 'Äla'apapa:  An analysis of selected dances and a comparison with Hula Pahu."  M.A. thesis, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 1994.

 

Takuma, Nano K. "Cultural Tourism in Hawaii: A Historical Insight of Hula and its Impact on the Native Hawaiian Community." Master of Community & Regional Planning thesis, University of New Mexico, 1993.

 

Tatar, Elizabeth.  "Annotated Bibliography of Hawaiian Music."  Ha'ilono Mele 1 (1975): Dec.; 2 (1976):  Jan., Apr., May, June, Oct., Nov.  Reprinted in Kanahele (ed.), 1979.

 

----------.  "Hawaiian Chant:  Mode and Music."  Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Los Angeles, 1978.

 

----------.  "Toward a Description of Precontact Music in Hawai'i," Ethnomusicology 25(1981), 481-92.

 

----------.  Nineteenth Century Hawaiian Chant.  Pacific Anthropological Records No. 33.  Honolulu:  Department of Anthropology, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1982.

Reviewed by Johnson, 1983.
Reviewed by Kealiinohomoku, 1987.
Reviewed by Zemp, 1984.

 

----------.  Review of McLean, Supplement:  An Annotated Bibliography of Oceanic Music and Dance.  Ethnomusicology 27 (1983), 388.

 

----------.  "Returning to the Source."  Phonographic Bulletin 41(1985), 41-6.

 

----------.  Strains of Change:  The Impact of Tourism on Hawaiian Music.  Bishop Museum Sepcial Publication 78.  Honolulu:  Bishop Museum Press, 1987.

 

----------.  Review of Beamer, Na Mele Hula:  A Collection of Hawaiian Hula Chants.  Ethnomusicology 32(1988), 466-7.  Also printed in Hawaiian Journal of History 20 (1988), 281-3.

 

----------.  Review of Stoneburner, Hawaiian Music:  An Annotated Bibliography.  Ethnomusicology 33(1989), 342-3.

 

----------.  Hula Pahu:  Hawaiian Drum Dances.  Vol. 2.  The Pahu:  Sounds of Power.  Bishop Museum Bulletin in Anthropology 3.  Honolulu:  Bishop Museum Press, 1993.

 

Trask, Haunani-Kay. "Lovely Hula Hands: Corporate Tourism and the Prostitution of Hawaiian Culture." In From a Native Daughter. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1993, pp. 179-197.

 

Trimillos, Ricardo D.  "Having Fun:  The Paniolo Heritage in Hawaiian Music," Na Paniolo O Hawai'i, edited by Lynn Martin.  Honolulu:  State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1987.  pp. 89-98.

 

----------.  "Halau, Hochschule, Maystro, and Ryu:  Cultural Approaches to Music Learning and Teaching."  International Music Education ISME Yearbook 15 (1988), 10-23.

 

Volland, Anita.  "Dance in pre-contact Hawaii:  A study in the interrelationship of art, religion, and social organization."  M.A. thesis (Anthropology), University of Pennsylvania, [1980].

 

von-Garske, Elisabeth.  "Iolani Luahine:  Last Handmaiden To The Gods.  An Annotated Bibliography of newspaper and periodical articles and other sources 1940-1980."  Unpublished manuscript, University of Hawaii, 1988.

 

Webster, Anitra Kuulei Kahananui.  "A study of movement and placement of hands in ancient Hawaiian dance as described in literature and as demonstrated by present day kumu hula to determine whether any aspects of ancient hand gestures survive today."  M.A. thesis (Interdisciplinary Studies Program), University of Oregon, 1977.


also produced a film:  Dance in the Hawaiian Islands, 53"
consultants:  Hooulu Cambra, Hoakalei Kamauu, Haunani Lee, Alicia Smith, John Kahai Topolinski.

 

Weintraub, Andrew.  "Jawaiian and Local Cultural Identity in Hawai'i."  Perfect Beat 1/2 (Jan. 1993), 78-89. Reprinted in Sound Alliances: Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Politics and Popular Music in the Pacific, ed. Philip Hayward. London: Cassell, 1998,  pp. 78-88.

 

Whitehurst, James.  "Mormons and the Hula:  The Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii."  Journal of American Culture 12 (1989), 1-5.

 

Whiteoak, John.  "Hawaiian Music and Jazzing."  Perfect Beat 2/3 (July 1995), 115-118.

 

Yardley, Maili and Miriam Rogers.  Queen Kapiolani. Honolulu: Topgallant Publishing Co., Ltd., 1985.

 

Zemp, Hugo.  Review of Tatar, Nineteenth-Century Hawaiian Chant.  Yearbook for Traditional Music 16 (1984), 122-5.

 

C. Hawaiian Musical Instruments—History, etc.

 

Anon. "A Short History of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar (Kď hö'alu)." Santa Cruz, CA: Dancing Cat Records.

 

Beloff, Jim. The Ukulele: A Visual History. San Francisco: Miller Freeman Books, 1997. Revised and Expanded Edition published by Backbeat Books, 2003.

 

Drodz, Karen. "The Hawaiian 'Ukulele: Its Players, Makers, Teachers and Continuity in Traditional Transmission Processes." M.A. thesis, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 1998.

 

Felix, John Henry, Leslie Nunes, and Peter F. Senecal.  The 'Ukulele:  A Portugese Gift to Hawaii.  Honolulu: published by the authors, 1980.

 

"Guitar in Hawaii," Guitar Player 10 (April 1976), 11-17, 48.

 

Hood, Mantle.  "Musical Ornamentation as History:  The Hawaiian Steel Guitar,"  Yearbook for Traditional Music 15(1983), 141-8.

 

Junker, Jay W. "Musical Instruments--Steel Guitars." The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 9, Australia and the Pacific Island, ed. Adrienne Kaeppler and J. W. Love, pp. 398-90. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998.

 

Kohl, Randall Charles.  "The Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Tradition as Performed by Raymond K. Kane:  An Analysis of Performance and Composition Techniques in Taro Patch and Other Tunings."  M.A. thesis, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 1990.

 

Ruymar, Lorene. The Hawaiian Steel Guitar. Anaheim Hills, CA: Centerstream, 1996.

 

Stillman, Amy Ku'uleialoha. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 9: Australia and the Pacific Islands, ed. Adrienne Kaeppler and J. W. Love, 1998.

 

"Musical Instruments: Slack-Key Guitars," 388-89.

"Musical Instruments: Ukulele," 390-91.

 

Widdess, Jim. How to Make Hawaiian Musical Instruments. Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 2002.

 

D. Instructional Manuals for Hawaiian Musical Instruments
(slack key guitar, steel guitar, 'ukulele, etc)

 

Blankenship, Anne. How to Play the Ipu Heke. n.p. http://www.hulasource.com/anblanhowtop.html

 

Hawaiian Ukulele: The Early Methods. Anaheim Hills, CA: Centerbrook, 1998.

 

Ho, Daniel and Steve Sano. Contemporary Slack Key Guitar. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred, 2001.

 

Kotani, Ozzie. Ki Ho'alu: An Instructional Method For Slack Key Vol. One. Pacific, MO: Mel Bay, 1995. Includes CD.

 

Phillips, Stacy. The Art of the Hawaiian Steel Guitar. Pacific, MO: Mel Bay Publications, 1991.

 

Sakuma, Roy. Treasury of Ukulele Chords. Honolulu: Roy Sakuma Productions, 1998.

 

University of Hawai'i Curriculum Research & Development Group. How to Play the Hawaiian Ukulele: 10 Easy Lessons. Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 2000.