Article: The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Tsugaru-jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan.(Review)

The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Tsugaru-jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan. By Gerald Groemer. (Detroit Monographs in Musicology/Studies in Music, 24.) Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 1999. [xxi, 321 p. ISBN 0-89990-085-2. $37.50.]

In recent years, there has been a plethora of publications, instruction books, and recordings of the Japanese genre called Tsugaru-jamisen." Originally music for blind itinerant shamisen players in northern Japan, Tsugaru-jamisen has become particularly popular among regional Japanese in the Tsugaru region of the Aomori prefecture as well as among urban youth in Japan and elsewhere. One recent publication is Suda ...

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