Ethnomugicological Research of Minolities in South Western District of China

该项目组受日本文部省委托，十年来，从巴基斯坦、印度北部、尼泊尔到不丹、中国等大喜马拉雅国家，从跨文化的角度对民间音乐和音乐文化进行研究。其目的是以音乐人类学理论为基础，通过收集民间传统、音乐、传说等方面的资料，掌握有关民族的文化认同和文化适应的现实。结果：1989年，田野调查主要在云南和广西地区进行。重点研究了前者的泰、夷、派、苗等民族，后者的东、瑶、壮等民族。在中国工作人员的合作下，研究了他们的仪式音乐和节日音乐，声乐和器乐，以及与之相关的民俗。根据项目成员的专业，将从民族音乐学、比较文学、民间表演、历史和民间信仰等角度对数据进行分析。讨论：上述地区位于东亚常绿森林文化带上，从喜马拉雅南麓一直延伸到中国的南部。其独特的文化已经被该项目作为主要目的之一进行研究。然后，该项目工作将于1991年在泰国北部进行。

This project group has researched from the crosscultural point of into folk music and music culture in the Great Himalayan countries, from Pakistan, northern India and Nepal to Bhutan and China, for these ten years delegated by the Japanese Ministry of education. The object is to grasp the cultural identity and the reality of acculturation of the people concerned by means of collecting data on folk tradition, music and lore on the basis of the theory of anthropology of music.RESULT : In 1989, the field research was prosecuted chiefly in the area of Yunnan and Kwangsi. Those Nationalities as Thai, Yi, Pai, and Miao in the formers Tung, Yao and Chuang in the latter were focused on. Their ceremonial music and festive music, vocal and instrumental, as well as its related folklore, were studied with the cooperative help of Chinese staffs. According to the major of the project members, the data obtained will be analyzed from such a standpoint as of ethnomusicology, comparative literature, folk performance, history and folk belief.DISCUSSION : The areas mentioned above are on the belt of the East Asian Evergreen Forest Culture, which stretches from the southern foot of Himalayas to the southern part of China. Its particular culture has been studied by the project as one of the main purposes. Then the project work is to be carried in the northern part of Thailand in 1991.