A study in inventive musico-cultural resources for Romanian ethnopop

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520904
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology/Folklore
• Research Institution: Hirosaki University
• Principal Investigator: SUWA Jun'ichiro 弘前大学, 国際教育センター, 准教授 (40336904)
• Research Collaborator: GRIGORE Irina Florentina
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ロマ / ルーマニア / 音楽 / 身体 / エスノポップ / 文化資源 / 文化人類学 / 音楽人類学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In Romania after 2000s, the Roma has been playing the principle role to the ethnopop; in Wallachia, these musicians are called lautari. The musical resource of the ethnopop, the muzica lautareasca (ML), is practiced by the band of lautari who are tied with kin relationship. However, musical struicture or social organization is not the main background for ML as musico-cultural resources; rather,it has been elucidated that the most fundamental element can be found in embodied behaviour, which constructs the musicians' bodies. ML is performed by intereactions with audience and for this the lautari make music through refining aesthetic judgement and reading phychological condition of the audience.

Free Research Field

文化人類学