Folk music of the Amami Islands
By: recorded by Douglas Haring
Series: Ethnic Folkways library
Publisher: Folkways Records
Published: 1954
Place of publication: New York
Language: jpn
Format: [sound recording] /
Subjects: Japanese Folk songs; Japanese Songs
Notes: Folkways: FE 4448.

Sung by Kogi Fukishima, Mr. Kaseda, Umeno Taiima, Mrs. Yoshi Sakae, Yekimitsu Takeda, and S. Nishigama; with hayashi and jyabisen played by Eikichi Kozari and Yekimitsu Takeda.

The songs recorded in Naze, Great Amami Island, 1952, by Douglas G. Haring; the dances, at Nesebu, 1951, by Jack Noland.
Table of contents: title: Waka rōsho.; title: Shigin.; title: Asabana hayari bushi.; title: Shumichi Nagahama.; title: Ima nu kazekumo.; title: Mochi morai uta.; title: Yerabu yuri no hana.; title: Shima sodachi.; title: Rankan bashi bushi.; title: Two children's songs [for bouncing a ball]; title: Ito kuri bushi.; title: Ichikya bushi.; title: Yerabu nagakumo bushi.; title: Umi no sasakusa.; title: Bon odori.; title: [Three dances at Nesebu Village]: Bo odori (staff dance); title: Hachagatsu odori (August dances)-Te odori (hand dances)