Art Music as Politics of Living in Contemporary Cuba: Toward a New Ethnographic Research

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16H07269
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Art at large
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: TANAKA Rieko 早稲田大学, 教育・総合科学学術院, 助手 (50779105)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-08-26 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 芸術人類学 / 音楽 / キューバ / 民族誌的研究 / 生の政治

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study is an ethnographic research focused on art music (“classical music”) in Cuba which does not apply to the traditional framework of “music (culture) = ethnicity = territory”. In particular, it focus on international music festival called “Cubadisco”, and explores a part of how behavioral modalities such as music creation, audience, and art policies change. Although traditional anthropology of music and ethnomusicology fundamentally focus on the primitive society's music or non-art music, this research clarifies that art music gain people's money, identity, and life even at today's social change period. Here, we obtain new knowledge of art music as politics of living.

Free Research Field

文化人類学