Hawaiian Professional Songwriters' Society records
Scope and Contents
The records consist of the Hawaiian Professional Songwriters' Society's correspondence, minutes of meetings, by-laws, newspapers clippings, journal articles, excerpts from published materials, sheet music, songs sheets, songwriters' drafts of songs, and other miscellaneous items from 1972 to 1988. They include copyrighted material.
Dates
- Creation: 1972 - 1988
Language of Materials
The records are chiefly in English; they include English and English/Hawaiian language songs.
Conditions Governing Access
These records are open to access for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Reproductions prohibited.
Biographical / Historical
The Hawaiian Professional Songwriters' Society is a private, statewide society founded to preserve and promote ancient, traditional and modern, hapa-haole music in Hawaii, as well as the music of related Polynesian societies throughout the South Pacific, to encourage and support the development of Hawaiian and Polynesian songs, and to protect the legal rights of members as composers, performance and recording artists.
Extent
2 Linear Feet
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The records of the Hawaiian Professional Songwriters' Society (HPSS) were donated to the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Special Collections by the Society circa 1988.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Hawaii at Manoa Libraries Repository