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Authored Books

Hughes, David W. (2008) Traditional Folk Song in Modern Japan. Sources, Sentiment and Society. Folkestone: Global Oriental.

Book Chapters

Hughes, David W. (2018) 'Safeguarding the heart’s home town: Japanese folk song as Intangible Cultural Heritage.' In: Norton, Barley and Matsumoto, Naomi, (eds.), Music as heritage: historical and ethnographic perspectives. Routledge, pp. 144-167. (SOAS Musicology Series)

Hughes, David W. (2016) 'Japan.' In: Church, Michael, (ed.), The other classical musics: fifteen Great Traditions. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell and Brewer, pp. 74-103.

Tokita, Alison McQueen and Hughes, David W. (2007) 'Context and change in Japanese music.' In: The Ashgate research companion to Japanese music. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 1-33. (SOAS Musicology Series)

Hughes, David W. (2007) 'Folk music: from local to national to global.' In: Hughes, David W. and Tokita, Alison McQueen, (eds.), The Ashgate research companion to Japanese music. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, pp. 281-302. (SOAS Musicology Series)

Hughes, David W. (2004) '"When Can We Improvise?": The Place of Creativity in Academic World Music Performance.' In: Solis, T., (ed.), Performing Ethnomusicology. Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California Press, pp. 261-82.

Hughes, David W. and Jones, Stephen (2001) 'East Asia.' In: Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John, (eds.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2nd Edition. Oxford: Macmillan, pp. 837-841.

Hughes, David W. (2001) 'Japan I-IX.' In: Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John, (eds.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2nd Edition. Oxford: Macmillan, pp. 815-90.

Journal Article

Hughes, David W. (2001) ''Soran Bushi': The Many Lives of a Japanese Folk Song.' CHIME: Journal of the European Foundation for Chinese Music Research, 14-15. pp. 31-47.

Hughes, David W. (2000) 'No nonsense: the logic and power of acoustic-iconic mnemonic systems.' British Journal of Ethnomusicology, 9 (2). pp. 93-120.

Other

Hughes, David W. and Berger, D. (2000) 'Japan: I - IX.' In: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 7th ed. Macmillan.

Hughes, David W. (1999) 'Min'yô: folk song from Japan: Takahashi Yûjirô and friends.' Nimbus Records.