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Japanese Children's Folk Songs before and after Contact with the West

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Elizabeth May
Elizabeth May*
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Music Department, Santa Monica Schools, and City College, Santa Monica, California, U.S. A.
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Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference. Liège, Belgium
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Journal of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 11 , 1959 , pp. 59 - 65
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Copyright © International Council for Traditional Music 1959

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