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Music as Weapon: Ainu musician fights for cultural survival

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Tomoto OTAKE
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Keeping traditions alive is not easy; it's even harder when there is no one to teach them. When Ainu musician Oki recently re-created traditional tunes on the tonkori, the stringed instrument of the Ainu people, his only guides were pre-1970s recordings of tonkori music collected by ethnomusicologists on bulky open- reel recorders.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 7 , July 2005 , e7
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