Queen Lili'uokalani steered her people through the difficult period of annexation and prevented a war " and she was also a highly trained musician who wrote some 200 songs (the most famous of them being "Aloha 'Oe") that became the foundation of modern Hawaiian music and a bulwark against the onslaught of mainland American culture. […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM on March 28, 2019