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Hawaiian Music: Home

This guide describes a variety of Hawaiian music resources used by musicians, hula practitioners, and researchers. Many of the resources are available at Hamilton Library.

Introduction and Purpose

This guide was created for researchers and people interested in Hawaiian music. The focus of this guide is on music by and for Native Hawaiians. All are invited to enjoy the music of these Islands. There are physical and digital repositories of Hawaiian music. Ultimately, it is the musicians who are the living repositories of Hawai'i's rich musical traditions.

(picture from Carroca on flikr, used under a creative commons license)
This guide was created by Kuuleilani Reyes, a library science graduate student intern

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