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Echo of Our Song: Chants and Poems of the Hawaiians (edition 1979)

by Mary K. Pukui

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Title:	Echo of Our Song: Chants and Poems of the Hawaiians
Authors:	Mary K. Pukui
Info:	University of Hawaii Press (1979), Paperback, 252 pages
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Tags:	nonfiction, yellow spine, Hawaiian language, Hawaii, chants, poems, songs, Hawaiian culture, Hawaiian history

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Echo of Our Song: Chants and Poems of the Hawaiians by Mary K. Pukui

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" the commoners especially (1) along with heroic chants celebrating nineteenth-century Hawaiian monarchs (1) and The Song of the Chanter Ka`ehu. Ka`ehu was a distinguished leper-poet who ended his days at the settlement-hospital on Moloka`i."A wide-ranging collection which adds much to our knowledge of Hawaiian poetry."-- Journal of Polynesian Society"Art and sc (1) anthologies and collections (1) anthology (1) chanting (1) chants (1) for Swarthmore (1) generation after generation.This anthology embraces a wide variety of compositions: it ranges from song-poems of the Pele and Hi`iaka cycle and the pre-Christian Shark Hula for Kalani`opu`u to postmissionary chants and gospel hymns. These later selections (1) Hawaii (3) Hawaiian culture (1) Hawaiian history (2) Hawaiian language (1) HI (1) history (1) mele (1) Mr. Thurston's Water-Drinking Brigade (1) multicultural studies (1) NF (1) non-fiction (1) oli (1) or "composers (1) or from elder to descendant (1) poems (2) poetry (5) reference (1) songs (1) such as Bill the Ice Skater (1) the majesty of their rulers (1) to preserve from being lost forever some of the beautiful poems which were composed by native Hawaiians."-- O. A. Bushnell (1)

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