Article on shakuhachi

Congrats, Kiku!

They want $30 for the article?

Yes. Strange to sell so expensive an article, who will pay $30 to read?

30$ ??! Uuuuuh.

Congratulations, Kiku!



They don't expect individuals like you or me to pay for it at all. They expect big libraries to, either as a matter of policy (at colleges with a strong music program, for example, the campus library might already subscribe to "Nineteenth-Century Music Review") or in response to a specific request from a researcher. Their working assumption is that anyone who would actually read this article will be able to persuade a library to get it for them somehow. Which I guess is how they feel they have to do business, but it does suck for the rest of us.

Relevant:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serials_crisis

Blast!!!! The abstract is tantalising!!!!!

Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to derail the thread. However crappy the publishing model is, the article sounds interesting and it's awesome to see one of our own getting recognition.

Kiku, when I read the title I thought maybe this was about the "shakuhachi ban" that I remember you were looking into a couple of years ago, but I see that it is actually about something quite different. I guess we can all imagine indirect effects of the form "Government only teaches Western music in schools, people lose interest in Japanese music including shakuhachi," but if you have time it would be great if you could share with us a few of the unexpected/previously unknown things your research uncovered!

Kiku, depending on the author agreement, you might be able to make a preprint available to the interested public?

My plan is to post it sooner or later.... or even better if someone with library access does it.

I hope that you post it sooner rather than later

Looks great Kiku!

At least in the U.S. everyone should have access to the article via inter library loan, and very well probably most of Europe, I assume. There might be negligible fees from the lending University. Alternatively, if a local college or university has access, electronic or otherwise, to this publication they may not know the difference if you go there and look it up (free). Access is controlled by the publisher, not the author, unfortunately. Posting an article like this could. Get you into some hot water with the publisher, so I would advise against it.

Later today I am going to make a visit to the college's wireless and download a copy.

Librarian Michael

I have now had a "go ahead" from the publisher to let others read pdf files of the article.
I hope you enjoy it!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/bz86f8

A big thank you!!