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Web: Grits and Sushi
Grits and Sushi: my musings on okinawa, race, family, militarization, blackness, & the south Subscribed. 🙂 (Via Okinawaology Blog.)
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Island Voices: Koutoku Tsuha (via Power of Okinawa)
At 83 years of age, Koutoku Tsuha is the oldest performing singer and sanshin player from the first generation of Okinawan recording artists. Born in 1927 in Yomitan on the main island of Okinawa, his father was a teacher of classical Ryukyu music, and his uncle was also a music teacher and a Ryukyu dancer.…
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Nenes: Okurimono (via Power of Okinawa)
At last the long-awaited album from the newest line-up of Sadao China’s protégées Nenes has been released on the Dig label. Okurimono (the title means ‘gift’) contains thirteen tracks and runs to 54 minutes. This time Nagisa Uehara is the only surviving member from the previous quartet who made the Sai album in 2008. Among…
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Karakui.com Special: Okinawan musicians to follow on Twitter
This is the first in a series of posts featuring people to follow on Twitter (Wikipedia link), the social networking/microblogging service. Musicians: @rinkenteruya – Rinken Band leader Rinken Teruya. He’ll often reply to @Mentions and tweets quite frequently. @gerhen_oshima – Gerhen Oshima, formerly of TINGARA, Churamana, and Shima Good Needs. His latest project is coco←musika.…
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Ska Lovers: Lovers Ska ~ Sing With You ~ (via Power of Okinawa)
This is the second album from Ska Lovers, the joint project of producer, programmer and keyboard player DJ Sasa and Hokkaido-born Okinawa-based singer and sanshin player Kanako Horiuchi who is also an accomplished performer of Okinawan minyo. Their idea is to play well-known J-pop songs in ska and rocksteady versions together with a large helping…
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Wallpaper: Meisa Kuroki for Epson
There are two wallpapers up as well as a screensaver for your Mac or PC up on Epson’s website featuring the always lovely Meisa Kuroki. (Via 壁紙fan!)
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Twitter: @Yuuka1220 shares a photo of the Ryukyu Festival poster
http://twitter.com/#!/Yuuka1220/status/1129545449078784 Link to the poster on Twitpic. Now all we need is someone to live blog it. 😛
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Karakui.com Special: That actor? He’s from Okinawa.
So here’s my companion to that special I did on actresses from Okinawa back in August 2009. This article will feature actors who were born in Okinawa or who have ties to Okinawa — usually a parent or grandparent who is originally from Okinawa. The list of actors may surprise you as you’ve probably seen…
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Yukito Ara & Toru Yonaha “Tachiutushi” on YouTube
The YouTuber (teamrimi) has several other videos from this session so be sure to check them out!
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Tweet: Ryukyu Festival at Osaka Castle
http://twitter.com/#!/Yuuka1220/status/1082443444523008
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