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Music from the Double Margins: Filipino and Local Women Musicians in Postwar Okinawan Popular Music

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15K03063
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Cultural anthropology
Research InstitutionKanazawa Seiryo University (2016-2017)
Tokyo Jogakkan College (2015)

Principal Investigator

Roberson JAMES E.,  金沢星稜大学, 人文学部, 教授 (80288430)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 鈴木 伸枝  千葉大学, 大学院人文科学研究院, 教授 (70412731)
Project Period (FY) 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywords沖縄 / ポピュラー音楽 / 米軍基地 / フィリピン人 / 女性 / ジャズ / ロック / Okinawan music / Filipino musicians / Okinawan women / American military / jazz music / rock music / Okinawa / postwar / music / jazz / Filipino / female / American Occupation / Postwar Okinawa / popular music / women / military base / cultural anthropology
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Combining archival research and ethnographic interviews, this research investigated the largely unexplored contributions of Okinawan women and of Filipino musicians performing in the military base towns of postwar Okinawa. The research focused especially on musicians who performed jazz and pop/rock music beginning during the American Occupation years (1945-1972), and on those who later began their music careers playing in both on- and off-base clubs that catered primarily to American military personnel. The research contributes to understanding the gendered and ethnic dimensions of popular music performances in (post)colonial Okinawa and to understanding the transnational networks of popular music performance in Asia connected through American military base towns as local sites of the performance-based production of a global American-inspired modernity.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All 2018 2017

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results,  Invited: 1 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] オキナワン・ロックをめぐる沖縄・アメリカ・日本2018

    • Author(s)
      Roberson, James
    • Journal Title

      歴史と民俗

      Volume: 34 Pages: 75-108

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 日米帝国の狭間のパフォーマンス:在日・在沖フィリピン人の文化研究に向けて2017

    • Author(s)
      鈴木伸枝
    • Journal Title

      沖縄芸術の化学

      Volume: 29

    • NAID

      40022117480

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Swinging and Singing: Filipino Jazz Musicians and Okinawan Female Vocalists in Japan and Okinawa2017

    • Author(s)
      James E. Roberson and Nobue Suzuki
    • Organizer
      Center for Okinawan Studies
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Hawaii at Manoa
    • Year and Date
      2017-01-09
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Swinging and Rocking the Keystone: Women Performers and the Gendered Colonial Modernity of Jazz and Rock in Postwar Okinawa.2017

    • Author(s)
      James E. Roberson
    • Organizer
      23rd Annual Japan Studies Association Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
    • Year and Date
      2017-01-07
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Empires, Colonial Modernity, and Twilights of Memory in the Trans-Pacific cultural Space: Filipino Musicians in Mainland Japan and Okinawa.2017

    • Author(s)
      Nobue Suzuki
    • Organizer
      23rd Annual Japan Studies Association Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
    • Year and Date
      2017-01-07
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Swinging and Rocking the Keystone: Women Performers and the Gendered Colonial Modernity of Jazz and Rock in Postwar Okinawa.2017

    • Author(s)
      Roberson, James E.
    • Organizer
      Japan Studies Association
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Empires, Colonial Modernity, and Twilights of Memory in the Trans-Pacific Cultural Space: Filipino Musicians in Mainland Japan and Okinawa.2017

    • Author(s)
      Suzuki, Nobue
    • Organizer
      Japan Studies Association
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race2017

    • Author(s)
      Nobue Suzuki
    • Total Pages
      440
    • Publisher
      Brill (Leiden)
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report

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Published: 2015-04-16   Modified: 2019-03-29  

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