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• Nona K. Beamer, Author

  Nona Kapuailohia Desha Beamer began her study of hula at the age of three. She is noted for her many contributions to the perpetuation of Hawaiian culture.

• A welcome addition to the small body of literature on the contemporary performance of traditional Hawaiian chants. The Beamer family has long played an active role in the presentation and perpetuation of Hawaiian music, and this volume is yet another effort on the part of Nona Beamer, well known to students and appreciators of Hawaiian music and dance, to preserve and share her family traditions. Mrs. Beamer provides the reader with a unique opportunity to perceive traditional hula chants from an individual performer's point of view.
  —Hawaiian Journal of History