Songs from the edge of japan: music-making in yaeyama and okinawa
Auteur :
Gillan, Matt
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781409424048
Date de publication :
10 févr. 2012
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
566 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Songs from the Edge of Japan is 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.