Okinawan music, the Glossary
is the music associated with the Okinawa Islands of southwestern Japan.[1]
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88 relations: Akata Sundunchi, Amami Islands, Amazing Grace, American rock, Bamboo, Begin (band), Bob Brozman, Bushi (music), Castanets, China Sadao, Choichi Terukina, Cocco, Confucius, Da Pump, Dub music, Eisa (dance), Electronica, Folklore, Fue (flute), Fuzzy Control (band), Gushikawa Chōei, Heterophony, Hexatonic scale, High and Mighty Color, High culture, HY (band), Hyōshigi, Impatiens balsamina, Interval (music), Japan, Kachāshī, Kakegoe, Kimigayo, Kokyū, Koto (instrument), Kunio Yanagita, Lute, Maitreya, Min'yō, Miyako Islands, Mongol800, Musa basjoo, Nada Sōsō, Nēnēs, Okinawa Islands, Okinawa Prefecture, Okinawan language, Ondo (music), Onna, Okinawa, Orange Range, ... Expand index (38 more) »
Akata Sundunchi
is a traditional Okinawan song about Maitreya, a Buddhist bodhisattva.
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Amami Islands
The The name Amami-guntō was standardized on February 15, 2010.
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Amazing Grace
"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779, written in 1772 by English Anglican clergyman and poet John Newton (1725–1807).
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American rock
American rock has its roots from 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and country music, and also draws from folk music, jazz, blues, and classical music.
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Bamboo
Bamboos are a diverse group of mostly evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.
Begin (band)
is a Japanese pop rock group from Ishigaki Island in the Yaeyama Islands of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
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Bob Brozman
Bob Brozman (March 8, 1954 – April 23, 2013) was an American guitarist and ethnomusicologist.
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Bushi (music)
is a type of Japanese folk music genre.
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Castanets
Castanets, also known as clackers or palillos, are a percussion instrument (idiophone), used in Spanish, Calé, Moorish, Ottoman, Italian, Mexican, Sephardic, Portuguese and Swiss music.
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China Sadao
(born 21 April 1945) is a Japanese musician active in the Okinawan music and shima-uta scene, as a performer on the sanshin, min'yō folk singer, song-writer, and producer, having been responsible in 1990 for the formation of the Nēnēs.
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Choichi Terukina
Choichi Terukina (Japanese: 照喜名朝一, Terukina Chōichi, 15 April 1932 – 10 September 2022) was a Japanese Ryukyuan classical musician and sanshin grandmaster.
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Cocco
is a female Japanese pop/folk rock singer.
Confucius
Confucius (孔子; pinyin), born Kong Qiu (孔丘), was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages, as well as the first teacher in China to advocate for mass education.
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Da Pump
is a Japanese boy band made up of lead vocalist, Issa Hentona and MCs Ken Okumoto, Yukinari Tamaki and Shinobu Miyara.
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Dub music
Dub is an electronic musical style that grew out of reggae in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Eisa (dance)
(エイサー) is a form of folk dance originating from the Okinawa Islands, Japan.
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Electronica
Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom.
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Folklore
Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.
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Fue (flute)
is the Japanese word for bamboo flute, and refers to a class of flutes native to Japan.
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Fuzzy Control (band)
is a three-piece Japanese rock band currently signed to DCT Records.
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Gushikawa Chōei
, also known by and his Chinese style name, was a member of the royal family of the Ryukyu Kingdom who served as sessei, a post often translated as "prime minister", from 1654 to 1666.
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Heterophony
In music, heterophony is a type of texture characterized by the simultaneous variation of a single melodic line.
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Hexatonic scale
In music and music theory, a hexatonic scale is a scale with six pitches or notes per octave.
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High and Mighty Color
High and Mighty Color (stylized as HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR) was a Japanese rock band active from 2003 to 2010.
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High culture
In a society, high culture encompasses cultural objects of aesthetic value, which a society collectively esteems as being exemplary works of art, and the intellectual works of literature and music, history and philosophy, which a society considers representative of their culture.
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HY (band)
HY is a Japanese rock band formed in 2000 by five high school friends from Okinawa.
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Hyōshigi
The is a simple Japanese musical instrument, consisting of two pieces of hardwood or bamboo often connected by a thin ornamental rope.
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Impatiens balsamina
Impatiens balsamina, commonly known as balsam, garden balsam, rose balsam, touch-me-not or spotted snapweed, is a species of plant native to India and Myanmar.
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Interval (music)
In music theory, an interval is a difference in pitch between two sounds.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Kachāshī
, sometimes romanized as katcharsee, is a form of festive Okinawan folk dance.
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Kakegoe
Kakegoe (掛け声) usually refers to shouts and calls used in performances of traditional Japanese music, Kabuki theatre, and in martial arts such as kendo.
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Kimigayo
is the national anthem of Japan.
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Kokyū
The is a traditional Japanese string instrument, the only one played with a bow.
Koto (instrument)
The is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument, and the national instrument of Japan.
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Kunio Yanagita
was a Japanese author, scholar, and folklorist.
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Lute
A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.
Maitreya
Maitreya (Sanskrit) or Metteyya (Pali), is a bodhisattva who is regarded as the future Buddha of this world in all schools of Buddhism, prophesied to become Maitreya Buddha or Metteyya Buddha.
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Min'yō
, Nihon min'yō, Japanese min'yō or Japanese folk music is a genre of traditional Japanese music.
Miyako Islands
The (also Miyako Jima group) are a group of islands in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, belonging to the Ryukyu Islands.
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Mongol800
is a Japanese three-piece punk rock band from Urasoe, Okinawa, Japan, formed in 1998.
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Musa basjoo
Musa basjoo, known variously as Japanese banana, Japanese fibre banana or hardy banana, is a species of flowering plant belonging to the banana family Musaceae.
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Nada Sōsō
is a song written by Japanese band Begin and singer Ryoko Moriyama.
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Nēnēs
Nēnēs (ネーネーズ) is an Okinawan folk music group formed in 1990 by China Sadao (知名定男).
Okinawa Islands
The are an island group in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan and are the principal island group of the prefecture.
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Okinawa Prefecture
is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan.
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Okinawan language
The Okinawan language (沖縄口, ウチナーグチ) or Central Okinawan is a Northern Ryukyuan language spoken primarily in the southern half of the island of Okinawa, as well as in the surrounding islands of Kerama, Kumejima, Tonaki, Aguni and a number of smaller peripheral islands.
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Ondo (music)
is a type of Japanese folk music genre.
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Onna, Okinawa
is a village located in Kunigami District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
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Orange Range
are a 5-member Japanese rock band, based in Okinawa, Japan.
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Pentatonic scale
A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to heptatonic scales, which have seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).
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Rimi Natsukawa
is a Japanese singer.
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Rinken Band
is an Okinawan band that formed in 1977 and helped popularize their homeland's musical forms and traditional Okinawan music starting in 1985, when their first hit, "Arigatou", was released.
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Rinshō Kadekaru
was a Japanese-Okinawan singer who was known as a representative Okinawan folk, shimauta, singer of the post-war era.
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Rutland (city), Vermont
Rutland is the only city in and the seat of Rutland County, Vermont, United States.
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Ry Cooder
Ryland Peter Cooder (born March 15, 1947) is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer, record producer, and writer.
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Ryūka
is a genre of songs and poetry originating from the Okinawa Islands, Okinawa Prefecture of southwestern Japan.
Ryoko Moriyama
(born January 18, 1948) is a Japanese folk singer and actress.
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Ryukyu Kingdom
The Ryukyu Kingdom was a kingdom in the Ryukyu Islands from 1429 to 1879.
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Ryukyu Underground
is an electronic music duo, consisting of Keith Gordon and Jon Taylor, whose music is heavily based on and inspired by traditional Okinawan folk music.
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Ryukyuan music
, also called, is an umbrella term that encompasses diverse musical traditions of the Amami, Okinawa, Miyako and Yaeyama Islands of southwestern Japan.
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Sanba
is a percussion musical instrument from the Okinawa Islands.
Sanshin
The is an Okinawan and Amami Islands musical instrument and precursor of the mainland Japanese (三味線).
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Sanxian
The (literally "three strings") is a three-stringed traditional Chinese lute.
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Seijin Noborikawa
, born in Uruma, Okinawa, was a master Okinawan musician and min'yō folk singer, and a headliner of the Utanohi music festival.
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Semitone
A semitone, also called a minor second, half step, or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most dissonant when sounded harmonically.
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Shamisen
The, also known as or (all meaning "three strings"), is a three-stringed traditional Japanese musical instrument derived from the Chinese instrument.
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Shima Uta (The Boom song)
is a 1992 song by the Japanese band The Boom.
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Shima-uta
is a genre of songs originating from the Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture of southwestern Japan.
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Shime-daiko
The is a small Japanese drum.
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Shoukichi Kina
, is a Japanese rock musician and politician.
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Shuri Castle
is a Ryukyuan gusuku castle in Shuri, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
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Shuri, Okinawa
is a district of the city of Naha, Okinawa, Japan.
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Solfège
In music, solfège or solfeggio, also called sol-fa, solfa, solfeo, among many names, is a mnemonic used in teaching aural skills, pitch and sight-reading of Western music.
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Taiko
are a broad range of Japanese percussion instruments.
Takashi Hirayasu
(born 5 January 1952 in Nakagusuku, Okinawa) is an Okinawan musician.
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The Boom
The Boom is a Japanese rock band.
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Tinsagu nu Hana
, also erroneously called Chinsagu nu Hana, is an Okinawan song about traditional Ryukyuan values such as filial piety and other Confucian teachings in the Okinawan language.
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Tokyo
Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.
Tooshin Dooi
Tooshin Dooi (Okinawan: 唐船どーい, Tooshin dooi) is a Ryukyuan folk song from the Okinawa Islands.
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Tsuneo Fukuhara
Tsuneo Fukuhara (14 November 1932 – 1 November 2022) was a Japanese composer and record producer.
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Tuttle Publishing
Tuttle Publishing, originally the Charles E. Tuttle Company, is a book publishing company that includes Tuttle, Periplus Editions, and Journey Editions.
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Warabe uta
are traditional Japanese songs, similar to nursery rhymes.
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Wolf-whistling
A wolf whistle is a distinctive two-note glissando whistled sound made to show high interest in or approval of something or someone (usually a woman), especially at someone viewed as physically or sexually attractive.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Yaeyama Islands
The Yaeyama Islands (八重山列島 Yaeyama-rettō, also 八重山諸島 Yaeyama-shotō, Yaeyama: Yaima, Yonaguni: Daama, Okinawan: Yeema, Northern Ryukyuan: やへま Yapema) are an archipelago in the southwest of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, and cover.
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Yamanashi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu.
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Zoltán Kodály
Zoltán Kodály (Kodály Zoltán,; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawan_music
Also known as Folk music of Okinawa, List of Okinawan songs, Music of Okinawa, Okinawan folk music, Popular music of Okinawa, Ryukyu minyo.
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