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1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Comparatire Studies in African "Sound Culture"

Research Project

Project/Area Number 06041035
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
SectionField Research
Research InstitutionTokyo University of Foreign Studies

Principal Investigator

KAWADA Junzo  Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Professor, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 教授 (50107835)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KABORE Oger  Sound archives, National Center of Scientific Research, Ouagadougou (Burkina Fas, 研究員
GARBA Mahaman  Center for Formation and Promotion of Music, Niamey (Niger) Director, 所長
NKETIA Kwabena  International Center for African Music and Dance, University of Ghana, Legon (Gh, アフリカ音楽舞踊センター, 所長
SUZUKI Hiroyuki  Faculty of General Education, Kokushikan University.Lecturer, 法学部, 講師 (20276447)
MAJIMA Ichiro  Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa.Assistant, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 助手 (10251563)
NAKAMURA Yusuke  Faculty of General Education, University of Tokyo Lecturer, 教養学部, 講師 (60237443)
TAKAKI Keiko  Faculty of International Studies, Obirin University.Associate Professor, 国際学部, 助教授 (60211330)
HORIUCHI Masaki  Faculty of International Studies, Hiroshima City University.Associate Professor, 国際学部, 助教授 (10209281)
TSUKADA Kenichi  Faculty of International Studies, Hiroshima City University.Professor, 国際学部, 教授 (00227365)
Project Period (FY) 1994 – 1996
Keywordssound culture / Africa / Sound communication / oral tradition / emic understanding of culture / return of the fruits / cultural anthropology / musical anthropology / Mask courtesy
Research Abstract

This research project aims to study the sound communication in several societies of africa, in its socio-cultural context and in comparative perspective, under the new concept of "sound culture". The sound culture includes the so-called music in the narrow sense, spoken language and oral traditions, as well as various systems of transmission of message by means of instrumental sounds like "drum language", widely used in Africa.
For this purpose, in the first year the investigators participating in this project, specialists of cultural anthropology or musical anthropology, carried out their field work in Tunisia, Morocco, Mali, Niger, Brukina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Zambia, in collaboration with researchers of this domain in each country. Two of these African researchers, of international fame, Dr.Oger kabore (Burkina Faso) and Dr.Mahaman Garba (Niger) contributed their paper to our collective report.
In the second year of our project, with the materials of the field research, the participants investigators examined their analysis on widely varied subjects of their research, such as the sound culture of the Stambali rites in Tunisia, or the reggae in the street culture of Abidjan, wrote a collective report in French or in Enghlish, in order to give back the fruits of our research to the people of each African country, at the same time to receive critical remarks and comments from the researchers of this domain in the world. Thus, by the exchange of ideas of international scale, we wish to develop and elaborate the researches in the framwork of this new concept of "sound culture".

  • Research Products

    (4 results)

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All Publications (4 results)

  • [Publications] 川田順造: "肖像と固有名詞 -歴史表象としての図像と言語における意味機能と指示機能-" アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究. 48・49合併号. 495-537 (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 川田順造: "ニジェール川大湾曲部の自然と文化" 東京大学出版会, 168 (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] KAWADA,Junzo: "The Portrait and the Proper noun : Signifying Function and Deictic Function of Historical Representatic, by Image and Longuage" Journal of Asian and African Studies. 48・49. 495-537 (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] KAWADA,Junzo: University of Tokyo Press. The Niger bend : Ecology and History, 168 (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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