{"product_id":"echo-of-our-song-chants-and-poems-of-the-hawaiians","title":"Echo of Our Song: Chants and Poems of the Hawaiians","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eHaina ia mai ana ka puana.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e This familiar refrain, sometimes translated \"Let the echo of our song be heard,\" appears among the closing lines in many nineteenth-century chants and poems. From earliest times, the chanting of poetry served the Hawaiians as a form of ritual celebration of the things they cherished--the beauty of their islands, the abundance of wild creatures that inhabited their sea and air, the majesty of their rulers, and the prowess of their gods. Commoners as well as highborn chiefs and poet-priests shared in the creation of the chants. These \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ehaku mele,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e or \"composers,\" the commoners especially, wove living threads from their own histoic circumstances and everyday experiences into the ongoing oral tradition, as handed down from expert to pupil, or from elder to descendant, generation after generation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis anthology embraces a wide variety of compositions: it ranges from song-poems of the Pele and Hiiaka cycle and the pre-Christian \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eShark Hula for Ka-lani-opuu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to postmissionary chants and gospel hymns. These later selections date from the reign of Ka-mehameha III (1825-1854) to that of Queen Liliu-o-ka-lani (1891-1893) and comprise the major portion of the book. They include, along with heroic chants celebrating nineteenth-century Hawaiian monarchs, a number of works composed by commoners for commoners, such as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBill the Ice Skater, Mr. Thurston's Water-Drinking Brigade,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Song of the Chanter Kaehu.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Kaehu was a distinguished leper-poet who ended his days at the settlement-hospital on Molokai.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslators and Editors: Mary K. Pukui, Alfons L. Korn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover, 233 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Hawaiʻi Press","offers":[{"title":"Softcover","offer_id":53196124062016,"sku":"uyu1790030993334","price":18.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0986\/8535\/4304\/files\/echo-of-our-song-chants-and-poems-of-the-hawaiians_1.jpg?v=1790030997","url":"https:\/\/mountainpeaks.shop\/products\/echo-of-our-song-chants-and-poems-of-the-hawaiians","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}