Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula (Illustrated) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Sacred Hula Chants, Hawaiian Oral Tradition, and Polynesian FolkloreBy Nathaniel Bright Emerson
Length12h 25m
About this audiobook
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula is a landmark ethnographic and literary record of mele hula—chants, prayers, invocations, and ritual songs preserved through performance rather than manuscript. Emerson presents Hawaiian texts with translations, commentary, illustrations, and explanations of gesture, mythology, instruments, and ceremonial practice. Its prose combines antiquarian scholarship, philology, and late nineteenth-century ethnography, situating hula within a broader Polynesian oral tradition while also reflecting the assumptions of its colonial scholarly moment. Nathaniel Bright Emerson, born in Hawaiʻi to American missionary parents and trained as a physician, was unusually placed between Euro-American education and long familiarity with Hawaiian language and society. His medical, military, and scholarly careers gave him access to aliʻi histories, native informants, and oral specialists, while his linguistic interests led him to preserve materials that rapid cultural change and missionary disapproval had endangered. This volume is recommended to readers of Hawaiian literature, performance studies, folklore, anthropology, and Pacific history. Though it should be read critically, especially for its period biases, it remains indispensable as a substantial archive of sacred poetic traditions and a testimony to the intellectual richness of hula.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenrePsychology
Length12 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 18, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
24XXII.--GESTURE
2INTRODUCTION
25XXIII.--THE HULA PA-HUA
3I.--THE HULA
26XXIV--THE HULA PELE
4II.--THE HALAU; THE KUAHU--THEIR DECORATION AND CONSECRATION
27XXV.--THE HULA PA'I-UMAUMA
5III.--THE GODS OF THE HULA.
28XXVI.--THE HULA KU'I MOLOKAI
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6IV.--SUPPORT AND ORGANIZATION OF THE HULA
29XXVII.--THE HULA KIELÉI
7V--CEREMONIES OF GRADUATION; DÉBUT OF A HULA DANCER
30XXVIII.--THE HULA MÚ'U-MÚ'U
8VI.--THE PASSWORD--THE SONG OF ADMISSION
31XXIX.--THE HULA KOLANI
9VII.--WORSHIP AT THE ALTAR OF THE HALAU
32XXX.--THE HULA KOLEA
10VIII.--COSTUME OF THE HULA DANCER
33XXXI.--THE HULA MANÓ
11IX.--THE HULA ALA'A-PAPA
34XXXII.--THE HULA ILÍO
12X.--THE HULA PA-ÍPU, OR KUÓLO
35XXXIII.--THE HULA PUA'A
13XI.--THE HULA KI'I
36XXXIV.--THE HULA OHELO
14XII.--THE HULA PAHU
37XXXV.--THE HULA KILU
15XIII.--THE HULA ÚLI-ULÍ
38XXXVI.--THE HULA HOO-NA-NÁ
16XIV.--THE HULA PUÍLI
39XXXVII.--THE HULA ULILI
17XV.--THE HULA KA-LAAU
40XXXVIII.--THE HULA O-NIU
18XVI.--THE HULA ÍLI-ÍLI
41XXXIX.--THE HULA KU'I
19XVII.--THE HULA KÁ-ÉKE-ÉKE
42XL.--THE OLI
20XVIII.--AN INTERMISSION
43XLI.--THE WATER OF KANE
21XIX.--THE HULA MAU-KANI
44XLII.--GENERAL REVIEW
22XX.--THE HULA OHE
45Memorable Quotes
23XXI.--THE MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE HAWAIIANS
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