'Ryukyu Underground' is a find

Honolulu Star - Bulletin | August 2, 2002| | Copyright

Much like America's South, the music of Okinawa, a group of more than 100 islands in the south of Japan, is distinctive, reflecting influences that have come from the Japanese, Chinese and other Southeast Asians, and later, the American military forces that have been there since World War II.

The traditional folk music, called face=+Italic; minyoface=-Italic; or face=+Italic; shima utaface=-Italic; , is punchy and infectious, with soaring, quavering vocals and the plunking of the snake-skinned banjo, theface=+Italic; sanshinface=-Italic; .

There have been wonderful contemporary music ...

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