Enkaesque Pop-folk music genres in the East European countries

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24320039
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Study of the arts/History of the arts/Arts in general
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Ito Nobuhiro 大阪大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (20221773)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KOJIMA Rio 中部大学, 人文学部, 教授 (50410650) ; SHINMEN Mitsuhiro 国立民族学博物館, 准教授 (60260056) ; OKU Ayako 共立女子大学, 文芸学部, 准教授 (90513169) ; OOTA Mineo 宮城学院女子大学, 学芸学部, 准教授 (00533952) ; WAJIMA Yusuke 大阪大学, 大学院文学研究科, 教授 (50609500) ; HAMASAKI Tomoe 信州大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (90535733)
• Research Collaborator: UEHATA Fumi 大阪大学, 大学院文学研究科, 院生(日本学術振興会特別研究員DC) ; SAKAI Yoko 大阪大学, 大学院文学研究科, 招へい研究員
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 東欧 / 演歌 / チャルガ / ポップフォーク / ターボフォーク / マネレ / 大衆音楽

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Chalga in Bulgaria, along with other types of pop-folk music, such as Turbo-folk in Serbia and Manele in Romania, has been a characteristic phenomenon since the 1990s in the East European Countries. On the other hand, we can find similar phenomena in Asia: Enka in Japan, Trot in Korea, Dangdut in Indonesia and so on. This project have tried to organize a research group, aiming at comparing these genres, and making clear the similarities and differences of each genre. We had 8 meetings with 20 presentations in Osaka, Tokyo, Nagano and Nagoya and are preparing an international forum in 2017 on this topic.
There we explored the social context of these genres, analyze the structure of the lyrics and music and a book on this topic will be published in 2016-17 in Japanese.

Free Research Field

音楽学