Puakea Nogelmeier

{{short description|American composer of Hawaiian music and chant}}

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| birth_name = Marvin Nogelmeier

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| birth_place = San Francisco, California

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| occupation = Professor, Linguist, Composer, Kumu Hula

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| awards = Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame, Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award

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| education = Anthropology (PhD), Pacific Island Studies (MA), Hawaiian Language and Anthropology (BA)

| alma_mater = University of Hawaiʻi

| thesis_title = Mai Pa'a I Ka Leo: Historical voice in Hawaiian primary materials, looking forward and listening back

| thesis_url = https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/1252

| thesis_year = 2003

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| notable_works = The Epic Tale of Hiʻiakaikapoliopele

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Puakea Nogelmeier is a kumu hula, linguist, scholar, researcher, writer and American composer of Hawaiian music and chant who is Professor Emeritus of Hawaiian Language at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Executive Director of Awaiaulu.{{cite web |url= https://coe.hawaii.edu/kahuaao/member/dr-m-puakea-nogelmeier/ |title = University of Hawaiʻi: College of Education}} Nogelmeier was Professor at the Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. His translation of The Epic Tale of Hiʻiakaikapoliopele won the 2008 Samuel M. Kamakau Award for books of the year.

Nogelmeier was born Marvin Nogelmeier. He was given the Hawaiian name, Puakea, by kumu hula Maiki Aiu Lake.{{cite web |url= https://www.pbshawaii.org/ourproductions/longstory_transcripts/LSS%20313%20Transcript%20-%20Puakea%20Nogelmeier.pdf |title = PBS: Long Story Short with Leslie Wilcox}} "Puakea" translates to "fair child." Nogelmeier was trained in hula by Mililani Allen, learned Hawaiian chant from Edith Kanakaʻole and Edith Kawelohea McKinzie. He learned much of the Hawaiian language and culture from Theodore Kelsey, Sarah Nākoa, and Kamuela Kumukahi.

In 1999, Honolulu's public bus transportation service, TheBus, hired Nogelmeier to rerecord the voice announcements featured on the bus. Nearly 6,000 individual phrases and place names were recorded for the program. In the process, Nogelmeier researched each Hawaiian place name to ensure the most accurate pronunciation. The recordings have helped to standardize how people pronounce these names.{{cite web |last=Keany |first=Michael |date=2011-04-11 |title=Voice of TheBus |URL=https://www.honolulumagazine.com/voice-of-thebus/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321214245/https://www.honolulumagazine.com/voice-of-thebus/ |archive-date=2023-03-21 |access-date=2023-06-30 |website=Honolulu Magazine}}