328 pp. May 2001
ISBN 978-0-945048-05-3P
Out of Print
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Na Mele Aimoku, na Mele Kupuna, a me na Mele Ponoi o ka Moi Kalakaua I: Dynastic Chants, Ancestral Chants, and Personal Chants of King Kalakaua I
by Kalakaua I
Ke Kupu Hou (Hawaiian Language Reprint Series)
Distributed for the Hawaiian Historical Society
Created as a gift to honor King Kaläkaua, this is the only book of Hawaiian poetic compositions published during the Hawaiian Monarchy period. It represents, in a modern form, the ancient practice of composing and performing chants specifically to honor the ruling chief. This privately published collection of forty-eight chants was a commemorative gift to the king at the elaborate two-week celebration held to mark his fiftieth birthday in 1886. Only seven copies of the original are known to exist today, including one copy at the Hawaiian Historical Society Library.
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