2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Music communities of ethnic and cultural minorities in and from Japan

Research Project

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Project/Area Number	17H02285
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Aesthetics and studies on art
Research Institution	Tokyo Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator	DE FERRANTI Hugh 東京工業大学, リベラルアーツ研究教育院, 教授 (90646598)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	井上貴子大東文化大学, 国際関係学部, 教授 (10307142) 宍倉正也東京工業大学, リベラルアーツ研究教育院, 研究員 (90781766) 齋藤俊輔大東文化大学, 外国語学部, 特任講師 (90794470) GILLAN Matthew 国際基督教大学, 教養学部, 上級准教授 (50468550) ホープトム東京工業大学, 環境・社会理工学院, 准教授 (90618779)
Project Period (FY)	2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Keywords	music / minorities / migration / community / Japan / Australia
Outline of Final Research Achievements	In practical terms this project has contributed to a broad-based process of nurturing greater intercultural understanding in C21st Japanese society. We disseminated our case study findings through international and domestic conference presentations, events open to the public as well as scholarly publications in both English and Japanese, and a publicly accessible website for our project. The case studies have shown vigorous maintenance of music and dance practices; transformation of context and meanings for migrant groups' musics in the Tokyo region setting; strategic appropriation of migrant minority musicking by various Japanese administrative bodies in the name of the ambiguous 'tabunka kyousei' ideal; ostensible reluctance by some groups to perform stereotypic 'ethnic' identities in Japan; and, musicking as a space for intercultural experience even in the face of past racialised hierarchical preconceptions and ongoing practices of exclusion in currentday Japan.
Free Research Field	音楽学, Musicology
Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements	Research data has shed first light on musicking among several newcomer ethnic communities of Tokyo in the C21st, as well as overseas Japanese migrants in the C20th. Case study articles and collections have been published in Japanese and English, with another edited collection now under peer review.