Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-Making in Yaeyama and Okinawa |
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| Author:
| Gillan, Matt |
| Series title: | SOAS Studies in Music Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4094-2404-8 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2012 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $175.00 |
Book Description:
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Songs from the Edge of Japan an ethnographic account of the contemporary performance of the music of Yaeyama, in the south of Japan's Okinawa prefecture. The work includes interviews, analysis of popular and scholarly works in Japanese, musical and lyrical analyses, and accounts of fieldwork carried out in Yaeyama and Okinawa since 2000.
Songs from the Edge of Japan an ethnographic account of the contemporary performance of the music of Yaeyama, in the south of Japan's Okinawa prefecture. The work includes interviews, analysis of popular and scholarly works in Japanese, musical and lyrical analyses, and accounts of fieldwork carried out in Yaeyama and Okinawa since 2000.