Ethnological Studies on Globalization and Localization of Music in Asia and Oceania

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YAMADA interviewed with musicians and producers at the music studios and documented the performances at the festivals in French New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea. Consequently he investigated the making, selling and distributing strategies of local music and clarified the actual conditions of musical exchange among the Melanesian countries and the globalizing strategies of music toward Europe and Australia.NAKAGAWA conducted researches on the activities of traditional music-dance troupes, the presentation of music culture at art festivals, and the musical change in a new genre called "chanpuru sari" in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. As a result, he clarified that the recent political and social changes had a rapid and strong influence upon various musical activities there.TERADA investigated the processes of making, distributing and diffusing of fusion music, a hybrid of Indian classical music and Western popular music, through interviews with musicians and producers in Chennai, India. He demonstrated that the fusion music had been made and distributed with the intention of diffusing it to Tamil societies in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.SIMEDA researched musical activities of minority groups in Sarawak, Malaysia. He showed that the two contrastive trends coexist there such as the distribution of local music to overseas and the acceptance of globalized music at local level and also demonstrated that the pan-Malaysian music and inflowing music from overseas had been integrated.UEMURA examined the revival movement of traditional music in Seoul, South Korea and clarified the relationship between traditional music schools and traditional music competition and revealed the revival process of "techuita" as an intentionally produced tradition.