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Soundscape of feast and the aesthetic consciousness of folk - a case-study on the autumn-feast of the Hachiman Shinto-shrine in Kutani / Hyogo Prefecture -

Research Project

Project/Area Number 06451013
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 美学(含芸術諸学)
Research InstitutionOsaka Univiersity of Arts

Principal Investigator

MABUCHI Usaburo  Osaka University of Arts, Dept.of Arts, Professor, 芸術学部, 教授 (30030406)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) NAKAGAWA Shin  Kyoto City University of Arts, Dept.of Music, Associate Professor, 音楽学部, 助教授 (40135637)
SIMURA Satosi  Osaka University of Arts, Dept.of Arts, Lecturer, 芸術学部学科, 講師 (60226264)
NISHIOKA Yoko  Osaka University of Arts, Dept.of Arts, Associate Professor, 芸術学部, 助教授 (20133514)
TUKITANI Tuneko  Osaka University of Arts, Dept.of Arts, Professor, 芸術学部, 教授 (80073261)
TANIMURA Ko  Osaka University of Arts, Dept.of Arts, Professor, 芸術学部, 教授 (90079608)
Project Period (FY) 1994 – 1995
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1995)
Budget Amount *help
¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
KeywordsAtmosphere of feast / Soundscape / Symbol-sound / Form in time / Structure of tradition / サウンドスケープ / 社寺祭礼 / イヴェント複合の比較 / 風流系踊り / ラバン記譜法
Research Abstract

This project tries to apply the conception of soundscape to the analysis and to the description of the extraordinary mood of feast and to develop a new research method for traditional performing arts by folk. The entire atmosphere of the feast is felt only by the ear, but visually never, because the feast has such various programs as the portable shrines, the sacred tree, the float of the sacred halberd, two groups of dancers and still more, which proceed through all village streets and visit all the doors of habitants. Each program goes, indeed, concurrently in different places of the village all day long on the 15th September. We recorded the sounds of the village in certain places and on certain clock times of the different months as materials of everyday soundscape. On the contrary, the sounds of the feast were taken up at a central point of the village and nine hours long uninterruptedly. We find that event in time 1) develops itself on some balance of dynamics, eventually including silent durations and 2) has a symbol-sound, here the sound of drums accompanying the dances, which functions as a kind of ground, heard all day long, though off and on with breaks. This symbol-sound gave beginning and ending to the duration of the feast ; the dynamics of the festive sound wrought formative. This plastic formation of the festive atmosphere in Kutani was only possible by the appreciation by the local folk of the traditional performing arts, various preparatory cooperation including the dance-lessons given to boys by adults, the community-consciousness, etc.

Report

(3 results)
  • 1995 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1994 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1995-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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