2 October 2024, 10:30-11:30 AM at Moore Hall 258
Lunch to follow
Join us for Dr. Keola Donaghy’s book talk for Mele on the Mauna: Perpetuating Genealogies of Hawaiian Musical Activism on Maunakea. In his new book, he explores the role of music in building solidarity, inspiration, and activism in the most contentious confrontations about protecting Maunakea.
Lunch to follow in the Tokioka Room (Moore Hall 319)
Keola is a prolific haku mele (composer of Hawaiian poetry), whose compositions have been recorded by Keali‘i Reichel, Kenneth Makuakāne, Kainani Kahaunaele, Amy Hānaiali‘i, The Pandanus Club, The De Lima ‘Ohana, O’Brian Eselu, Patrick Landeza, and Steven Espaniola. His co-composition “Aloha Keauhou” (with Makuakāne) was performed by the senior women at the 2012 Kamehameha Schools Song Contest. He produced the Institute of Hawaiian Music’s Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award-winning compilation “Aloha ‘Ia Nō ‘O Maui,” and has received numerous nominations for the Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards as a composer, producer, and liner note annotator. Keola is the Faculty Coordinator of the Institute of Hawaiian Music and Music Studies at UH-MC. He teaches Hawaiian and world music, music theory and applied music.
