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Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-making in Yaeyama and Okinawa (Paperback)
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Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-making in Yaeyama and Okinawa (Paperback)
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Since the early 1990s, Okinawan music has experienced an
extraordinary boom in popularity throughout Japan. Musicians from
this island prefecture in the very south of Japan have found
success as performers and recording artists, and have been featured
in a number of hit films and television dramas. In particular, the
Yaeyama region in the south of Okinawa has long been known as a
region rich in performing arts, and Yaeyaman musicians such as
BEGIN, Daiku Tetsuhiro, and Natsukawa Rimi have been at the
forefront of the recent Okinawan music boom. This popularity of
Okinawan music represents only the surface of a diverse and
thriving musical culture within modern-day Yaeyama. Traditional
music continues to be an important component of traditional ritual
and social life in the islands, while Yaeyama's unique geographical
and cultural position at the very edge of Japan have produced
varied discourses surrounding issues such as tradition versus
modernity, preservation, and cultural identity. Songs from the Edge
of Japan explores some of the reasons for the high profile of
Yaeyaman music in recent years, both inside and outside Yaeyama.
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork carried out since 2000,
the book uses interviews, articles from the popular media, musical
and lyrical analysis of field and commercial recordings, as well as
the author's experiences as a performer of Yaeyaman and Okinawan
music, to paint a picture of what it means to perform Yaeyaman
music in the 21st century.
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