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Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-making in Yaeyama and Okinawa Matt Gillan New edition
Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-making in Yaeyama and Okinawa
Matt Gillan
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.
219 pages, includes 10 b&w illustrations, 2 maps & 16 musical examples
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 10, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9781409424048 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 163 × 240 × 20 mm · 606 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Howard, Professor Keith |