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The single tone : a personal journey into shakuhachi music / Christopher Yohmei Blasdel.

by Blasdel, Christopher Yohmei.

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Tōkyō : Printed Matter Press, 2005.

Blasdel, Christopher Yohmei.

Folk music -- Japan.

Music -- Japan.

1933175095 (pbk.)

167 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Encounters. Shakuhachi and the spirit of stone ; Arrival in Japan ; Shakuhachi seduction ; The first lesson ; Yamaguchi Gorō ; Form and content -- Shakuhachi fantasy and fact. An ancient tale ; Shakuhachi fact ; Sound enlightenment ; Secular shakuhachi -- Drifting. A Guatemalan "Zen" guru ; Returning to Yamaguchi ; Butoh : breaking the rules ; A Japanese patron -- Breaking barriers : inner and outer. Traditional music, traditional architecture and attitudes of indifference ; An appalling judge of music ; Japanese music education : waiting a hundred years ; Koizumi Fumio, the man who listened to the world ; Taking matters into hand : an outsider fights back ; Doleful Bach and Dionysian drumming ; Coming from afar -- Wandering the world. Japanese music in China ; The shakuhachi in old Europe ; Natural affinities ; The jungles of Argentina ; Japanese folk music for American folk ; Lunch with the President and Prime Minister -- Shakuhachi in the world, the world in shakuhachi. Shakuhachi in the Americas ; November steps: then and now ; Non-Japanese shakuhachi masters ; The First International Shakuhachi Festival ; Planning for the festival ; Rocky Mountain shakuhachi ; Bamboo voice ; Constraints in Japan and America ; The lingering moon.

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