2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Introduction to the history of taiko drum music: From its birth to its growth overseas
| Project/Area Number |
25580043
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Art at large
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| Research Institution | Ehime University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 太鼓音楽 / 組太鼓 / 創作太鼓 / 和太鼓 / 世界音楽 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study focuses on taiko drum music in the 1950s through the ’60s. Major accomplishments of this research include the following: 1) digitizing 70 privately-owned videotapes of early taiko performance groups, 2) charting the general course of taiko music from its birth in Japan to its development into a global music after spreading to North America, as I have described in Chapter six of Hawai ni Hibiku Nippon no Uta [Japanese Songs Echo in Hawai‘i], 3) the discovery that popular compositions from the early period are currently performed as global standards, and, 4) the finding that the horizontal ties established between the early taiko performance groups have persisted to the present day, even after generational change, as often seen in their influence on performance practice.
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| Free Research Field |
文化人類学、音楽人類学、
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