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- Linder, Gunnar Jinmei, 1959-
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An Analysis of Form : The Concept of kata in Japanese Traditional Music
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Ingår i: Živá hudba / Living Music. Review for the Study of Music and Dance. - Prague : NAMU. - 0514-7735. ; :4, s. 70-93
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article I attempt a partly new way of analysing the clusters of sound that constitute the building blocks – kata – of the fundamental repertoire of the Japanese bamboo flute shakuhachi. These kata can be perceived as structural entities of the music, but some Japanese scholars regard them as intangible prescriptive entities that are implicit in any of the traditional art forms that exist (or have existed) in Japan. I challenge the notion that these kata should be seen as motifs, and suggest a new terminology that I find appropriate for describing the musical events that occur in the sound clusters.
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- Linder, Gunnar Jinmei, 1959-
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Deconstructing Tradition in Japanese Music : A Study of Shakuhachi, Historical Authenticity and Transmission of Tradition
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the present study I examine the vertical bamboo flute shakuhachi, as an example of how a tradition can be constructed. There are two main issues: the historical authenticity of the believed origins and development of the shakuhachi tradition, and how the transmission of this tradition is conducted.The first main issue is concerned with how a legendary origin, probably constructed in the late seventeenth century, was disproved in early twentieth-century studies. According to this legendary origin, the shakuhachi was connected to Chan (Zen) Buddhism in ninth-century China. It was replaced by a nowadays commonly accepted theory of an indigenous origin, found in both Japanese and English language contemporary writings. I discuss the legend, constructed by the so-called komusō monks of the Edo period (1603–1867), and suggest an alternative explanation of how they became connected to other kinds of medieval monks, so-called boro and komosō. The primary sources relating to the boro and the komosō are discussed. My analyses indicate that the twentieth-century studies created a connection to the boro and komosō as assumed devout Buddhist monks, probably for socio-political reasons.The second main issue concerns how the tradition is transmitted, and the constitutive elements of this transmission. Some Japanese studies discuss the notion of kata – fixed forms implicitly containing essential elements of the ‘tradition’ – as a special feature of Japanese arts. I investigate how transmission is conducted, and argue against the notion that the elements transmitted from teacher to student contain the essence of the tradition. I assert that the concept of fixed forms as a defining characteristic of Japanese traditional arts, should be modified to a more modest ‘character of the music’ on the level of individual transmitters. I discuss the elements that are transmitted, and investigate what it is that constitutes the ‘traditional’ aspects, if any, of this transmission.
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- Linder, Gunnar Jinmei, 1959-
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Notes on Kinko-ryū Shakuhachi Honkyoku : Performance Techniues – Analysis, Classification, Explanation
- 2011
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Bok (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- The book contains two chapters, where the first chapter deals with the problems of classifying ornaments in the solo repertoire of shakuhachi music (Kinko School), and the second chapter gives detailed phrase-by-phrase explanations to ten pieces in the repertoire. The book comes with three CD-discs with recordings of the ten pieces, performed by the author, as well as newly written scores.
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- Linder, Gunnar Jinmei, 1959-
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The boro and Shakuhachi
- 2011
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Ingår i: The European Shakuhachi Society Journal. - London : The European Shakuhachi Society. ; 1, s. 4-34
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- The article questions the commonly held view of the Edo period komusō as descendants or successors of an older indigenous tradition, the monks referred to as boro and komosō in medieval texts (14th to 16th centuries).
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