Ebook: Songs from the edge of Japan: music-making in Yaeyama and Okinawa

1. Island treasures (Sīma nu Takara) -- 2. Islands of song and dance : Yaeyama and its music -- 3. The southern islands : Yaeyama and Okinawa in the Japanese cultural imagination -- 4. Music for gods, ancestors and people : Yaeyaman music in a ritual context -- 5. Nama ni nukushōri : lineages and preservation groups -- 6. Izu su du nusī : the singer is master : regional versus individual styles in the performance of Tubarāma -- 7. The Okinawa 'boom' : local music on the national stage -- 8. Afterword.