2017 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Music communities of ethnic and cultural minorities in and from Japan
| Project/Area Number |
17H02285
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
デフェランティ ヒュー 東京工業大学, リベラルアーツ研究教育院, 教授 (90646598)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
井上 貴子 大東文化大学, 国際関係学部, 教授 (10307142)
GILLAN Matthew 国際基督教大学, 教養学部, 上級准教授 (50468550) [Withdrawn]
ホープ トム 東京工業大学, 環境・社会理工学院, 准教授 (90618779)
宍倉 正也 東京福祉大学, 国際交流センター, 特任講師 (90781766)
齋藤 俊輔 大東文化大学, 外国語学部, 特任講師 (90794470)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
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| Keywords | music / minorities / Japan / Australia / community / fieldwork / website |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Each of the core members of the research project have made significant progress with their investigations of music-making among a given minority: de Ferranti on the Japanese of prewar Australia, Inoue on South Indians in Tokyo, Saito on Nikkei Brazilians in Gumma, and Shishikura on Ogasawara residents. The fieldwork documentation of Nepalese musicians in and around Tokyo by Sawan Joshi, who is a 研究協力者 on the project, has also been carried out meticulously and with professional skill.
The progress of each core member has been reported on at two project meetings, in September and January. The principal tasks in Year 1 have involved identification and securing of resources in the broadest sense, meaning contacts with individuals, organisations, and documentary sources. For the Australian comparative historical case study, that has meant interviewing people in their 80s and 90s, contacting and visiting individual researchers as well as archives and libraries in Far North Queensland (including Thursday Island) and Sydney as well as in Japan.
As an important step toward public dissemination of the fruits of this research, a selection of both videos and photos have been made available for public viewing on the project WEBSITE, which went ‘live’ to the world in March (http://www.musicminoritiesinterculturalexperience.hdf.ila.titech.ac.jp).
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
All core members of the project were active in pursuing the Year 1 goals outlined in our initial proposal. (Please note that Dr. Matthew Gillan of ICU withdrew from the project soon after the start of the funding, so ‘all’ does not include him.) Each of de Ferranti, Inoue, Saito and Shishikura engaged in fieldwork - in Australia, Tokyo, Oizumi (Gunma Prefecture) and Hamamatsu (as a comparative case), and Ogasawara, respectively. In the project leader de Ferranti’s case, two fieldwork trips were undertaken, in August 2017 and late March 2018. On both trips oral history interviews were carried out in tropical northern Australia (Thursday Island and Cairns, respectively), and documents were gathered at historical archives and libraries in both Cairns and Sydney. On the second fieldtrip, de Ferranti also delivered a first paper on the project at an international symposium at Sydney University (it was held in the first days of April, so strictly speaking that ‘outcome’ will be reported for Year 2 of the Japanese system.) While not a core member, Tom Hope engaged in giving feedback on the materials of core members, drawing upon his expertise in sociological theory.
The concrete fruits of our diverse fieldwork projects, including photographs and video recordings of music performances, and interview recordings, were uploaded to a central Cloudspace site to which all project members have access.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The core members will continue their individual topic investigations, building upon the network of contacts established during Year 1 and in some cases broadening the geographic scope of the investigation. Increased attention will be given to addressing and interpreting the data and materials in terms of the two processes and issues central to this project.
International conference talks in Year 2: Sydney University (de Ferranti, April), University of Music and Performing Arts, Wien (de Ferranti, July) and Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University, Perth (de Ferranti, Saito and Inoue; panel of 3 proposed for December annual conference of the Musicological Society of Australia)
Changes: Dr Shishikura to be 研究協力者 from September. Add Dr. Michiyo Yoneno (Tokyo Daigaku) as 研究協力者
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| Remarks |
The website was designed so as to provide an overview of the team project, samples of the fieldwork materials and a space for interested people to make enquiries and give feedback on the work.
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