Ethnomugicological Research of Minolities in South Western District of China

本课题组受日本文部科学省委托，在过去的十年中，从跨文化的角度对喜马拉雅山脉国家的民间音乐和音乐文化进行了研究，这些国家包括巴基斯坦、印度北方、尼泊尔、不丹和中国。以音乐人类学的理论为基础，通过对民间传统、音乐、传说等资料的收集，掌握相关人群的文化认同和文化适应的现实。本文以泰、彝、派、苗等少数民族和侗族、瑶族、壮族为研究对象，在中方人员的配合下，对他们的仪式音乐与节日音乐、声乐与器乐及其相关民俗进行了研究。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所获得的资料进行分析。讨论：上述地区位于东亚万年青林文化带上，从喜马拉雅山南麓一直延伸到中国南部。该项目的主要目的之一是研究其独特的文化。1991年在泰国北方进行项目工作。

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.