James Rhys Edwards

James Rhys Edwards received his doctorate in Ethnomusicology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2015, with a dissertation on the aesthetics and politics of commercial performing arts in prewar Okinawa, Japan (http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9r74h4t8). He has carried out research in Japan, Indonesia, and Singapore, leading to publications in Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, Ethnomusicology Review, International Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, and the forthcoming edited volume Current Directions in Ecomusicology.