釒︶幍釒♂幍 釓メ彆釒踞幐, O Johnette Makamaeakahaio'kaho'oponoponookapunahelekupuo'kaaina Martin ko'u inoa. No Makawao ko驶u ahupua驶a a o H膩m膩kuapoko, Maui mai au. Noho wau i Kololako (Colorado). As an 釓ａ幊釒� and Kanaka Maoli, cis-gendered, heterosexual woman and musicologist, Johnette鈥檚 research interests range from film music to representation, misinformation, and identity in Indigenous music cultures, particularly of the Americas and Polynesia. Born and raised in Hawai鈥檌 Nei, she grew up immersed in traditional Native Hawaiian practices, once denied to her ancestors. Being a musicologist is a passion that intensifies with her accomplishments in the scholarship and with the guidance of her fellow scholars and professors: past, present, and future. She started her collegiate music education with the goal of returning to her community to give back in the form of teaching academic art music. To this day, Johnette still aspires to contribute to her community as her kuleana or responsibility through teaching music and culture, but now including her Native Hawaiian and Cherokee cultures into the conversation of American Musicology. Her goals of inclusivity stretch from ethnic identity to gender, sexuality, and spiritual identity, i.e., the 2-spirited individual, pre-, and post-colonization. Johnette鈥檚 work also includes South Korean film music and pansori (South Korean folk music) to be featured in the Music and the Moving Image Journal as well as Mariachi vocals and pedagogy.
As an undergraduate and a graduate master鈥檚 student, Johnette attended the University of Hawai鈥檌 at M膩noa, successfully accumulating a BA in Music Education: Secondary Instrumental on French classical saxophone and an MA in (Film) Musicology, respectively, while volunteering for N膩 Pua No鈥檈au and Kamehameha Schools to actively participate in the cultural education of Native Hawaiian children. In her master鈥檚 program, she completed and defended her thesis with respect to feminism and film musicology, 鈥淢usical Aesthetics in Alex North鈥檚 Score for The Bad Seed.鈥� Johnette has most recently worked as a teacher of Native Hawaiian culture at Mid-Pacific Institute, a private college prepatory K-12 school in M膩noa, Hawai鈥檌. Johnette is currently in the Ph.D. Musicology program at the University of Colorado 鈥� Boulder and works in the Norlin Library / American Music Research Center music archives. She is also the Director of the CU Boulder Latin American Music Ensemble, performing repertoire from all over Latin America including Ranchera from Mexico to Quechua folk songs from Peru. Johnette recently returned from a trip to Aotearoa New Zealand and will soon return to continue her ethnographic work on M膩ori ceremony in New Zealand society and cinema - a part of her dissertation work.
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