The Intangible Cultural Heritage in relation to the Local Community

非洲是一个有着丰富的优秀文化传承和发展的大陆。为了涵盖丰富的非洲声音遗产，如口头传统，乐器声音，包括鼓的语言，有节奏的身体表演的歌曲和声音，音乐的概念，构思和阐述在现代欧洲是太局限了;这就是为什么在我们的项目中，我们使用了术语声音文化。这些非洲声音文化中有许多已被联合国教科文组织登记为非物质文化遗产，但它们还不够，我们必须继续调查当地，特别是与支持这些宝贵遗产的当地社区有关。与物质化的有形遗产不同，作为一种无形的遗产，活的当地社区的作用至关重要。在这个问题上，我们在西非（布基纳法索和几内亚）、中非（喀麦隆）和东非（埃塞俄比亚和坦桑尼亚）进行了实地研究。在第一手资料的基础上，试图厘清非物质文化遗产传承的社会问题。由于首席研究员J. Kawada作为教科文组织的专家工作了多年，我们希望将我们的研究成果提交给教科文组织，以便更好地了解当地社区提出的问题。

Africa is the continent where the sound cultures have abundantly developed and inherited. To cover the rich African sound inheritance, such as oral traditions, instrumental sounds including the drum language, rhythmical body performances cadenced by songs and sounds, the notion of music, conceived and elaborated in the Modern Europe is too restricted; that is why in our project we have used the term sound cultures. Many of these African sound cultures have been registered by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Inheritances, but they are not sufficient, and we must continue to investigate on the place, especially in connection to the local community which supports these precious inheritances. Different from materialized tangible inheritances, for an intangible one, the role of the living local community is vital. On this subject, we carried field researches in West Africa (Burkina Faso and Guinea), Central Africa (Cameroon) and East Africa (Ethiopia and Tanzania). Based always on the first hand materials, we tried to clarify the social problems for the succession of intangible cultural inheritances. As the head investigator, J. Kawada, has worked for many years as an expert of UNESCO, we wish to present our research results to UNESCO for a better understanding of the problems raised by the local community.