Gagaku crossing boundaries: introduction, reception, and development of Japanese traditional music abroad

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520157
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Study of the arts/History of the arts/Arts in general
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: TERAUCHI NAOKO 神戸大学, 国際文化学研究科, 教授 (10314452)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 芸術諸学 / 音楽学 / 文化人類学 / 伝統芸能 / 雅楽

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examines how Japanese royal court music gagaku is sent out, accepted, settled, and developed oversea from the viewpoints of ethnomusicology and cultural-anthropology. This study classified gagaku practices abroad into two categories, 1) dispatch type (from Japan) and 2) staying type, and conducted fieldworks on leading gagaku musicians, music producers, instructors, and academic researchers in Tokyo, Hawaii, Los Angeles, New York, Cologne, and Paris. The study clarified the mechanism and social meaning of the development of gagaku abroad by analyzing activities and intentions of musicians or instructors, response of audience, music style or presentation outside Japan.

Free Research Field

民族音楽学