2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

An Anthropological Study of Globalization and South Indian Music

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20520722
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Cultural anthropology/Folklore
Research Institution	National Museum of Ethnology
Principal Investigator	TERADA Yoshitaka National Museum of Ethnology, 民族文化研究部, 教授 (00290924)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	芸能 / 芸術
Research Abstract	South Indian classical music is actively practiced in diasporic Indian and Sri Lankan communities in England and North America, as a marker of their ethnic identity and as a means to transmit cultural values to the next generation. Their strong interests in music have generated closer contacts between India and diasporic communities, through concert tours and migrations of Indian musicians, long-distance teaching through internet and performances in India by diasporic musicians and dancers. The music as practiced in India has been in turn affected by the increasing presence of NRIs and overseas Sri Lankan Tamils in terms of repertoire, language and manner of performance.

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