Article: "YES I WROTE IT, BUT I DIDN'T MEAN IT": HEARING THE UNINTENDED IN NIIMI TOKUHIDE'S OHJU (1988).(Critical Essay)(Illustration)

IN A RECENT ARTICLE Jonathan Bernard writes:

Minimal music is ... not non-Western in any meaningful sense. That composers like Reich, Riley, and Glass, through their study of African, Indian, and Far Eastern musics, have essentially divorced themselves from the Western tradition and have thereby placed their music out of the reach of "traditional" criticism or analysis is not a claim that withstands scrutiny. It is, in fact, rather insulting to the non-Western musics themselves, for the idea that such musics are separable from their respective cultural contexts, and are therefore ultimately available to any non-native willing to undergo long immersion and ...

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