The Okinawa Collection received a set of 12 CDs of Okinawa min'yō titled "Utakata / 唄方."
The set includes the songs from the Okinawa, Miyako, and Yaeyama areas.
The editor/compiler of this set is Kazufumi Miyazawa (宮沢和史), who is a vocalist of a famous band called The Boom (which stopped playing as a band in 2014).
The Okinawa Collection received this set as a gift from the editor/compiler through the assistance of Okinawa Public Library in Okinawa, Japan.
The Okinawa Prefectural Culture Promotion Organization (公益財団法人沖縄県文化振興会) has released several Okinawan old songs (古謡). Informatino is availabble at their site. The site is written in Japanese only.
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