Watch this presentation by Dr. Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio, Dean of Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, as he presents "Intimacies: Poetics of a People Beloved." Originally delivered to the Pacific History Association in 2014 and later published by the Australia National University Press in the collection Islands of Hope (2022) edited by Paul D'Arcy and Daya Kuan.
"As an essay, this presentation was always complicated by the fact that it was meant to be sung. There are half dozen mele in the work; some that I have composed, others I have not." — Jon Osorio
Recorded live in the Atherton Performing Arts Studio.
Mele list:
3:30 Stars Over Kokeʻe [why we don't need TMT]
8:52 Hawaiʻi Aloha
14:48 Wonsolwara
18:57 Song For Teresia
23:35 Hawaiian Spirits Lives Again
35:52 Aloha ʻOe
42:05 Hawaiian Soul
47:12 The Beauty of Mauna Kea
59:44 Mele Inoa Nā
Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio:
Dr. Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio is the Dean of Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge. He is married to Mary Carol Dunn and has fathered five children, all reasonably well-adjusted human beings. Dr. Osorio received his PhD in History from the University of Hawaiʻi in 1996 and was on the faculty of the Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, serving as director of the Center from 2003 to 2008. As a professor, he has collaborated with numerous other faculty and students in many departments to bring recognition for indigenous knowledge, championing Hawaiian language, performing arts and the study of Hawaiian and Pacific Islands history and contemporary issues through conferences, forums and publications. He has published broadly and both of his books, Dismembering Lāhui (2002) and The Value of Hawaiʻi (2010), co-edited with Craig Howes, have won local publishing awards. Dean Osorio serves on several boards and committees in support of Hawaiian sovereignty and the protection of sacred places in Hawaiʻi. He is a composer and singer and has been a Hawaiian music recording artist since 1975.
Learn more: manoa.hawaii.edu/hshk/people/deans-office/jon-osorio
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