Ethnomugicological Research of Minolities in South Western District of China

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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.