MODERN FOLKLORE STUDIES FOR RE-ORGANIZATION PROCESS OF LOCAL CULTURES THROUGH THE LARGE-SCALE EVENTS

这个研究项目是分析各种民间表演艺术通过大型节日活动作为地方文化上演和重组的过程。研究对象如下：1.研究者对1999年在和歌山县田边和白滨举行的第七届全国地方传统表演艺术节和2000年在兵库县淡路岛举行的国际花卉和绿色博览会的市政活动进行了两次参与观察。研究人员还对熊本县八城的八城庙祭木田、爱知县新四郎的尾野Hoka、岐阜县八幡町的古筝Odori等民间表演艺术进行了观察调查。所有这些民间表演艺术都有被邀请在大型节日活动的舞台上演出的经历。在活动中，许多民间表演艺术被挑选出来在节日舞台上表演，与当地的背景分开。这些事件正是民间文化从原本的农民文化向地方文化转化的契机。国家和地方政府通过选择和重新评估代表地方身份的民间表演艺术，在这一过程中发挥了重要作用。

This research project was to analyze the process in which various folk performing arts are staged and re-organized as local culture through the large-scale festival events. The research subjects are as follows. 1.The investigator made two participant observations on the 7th National Festival of Regional Traditional Performing arts 1999 in Tanabe and Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, and the Municipal Event in the International Exposition for Flower and Green 2000 at Awaji Island, Hyogo Prefecture. 2.The researcher also conducted observing survey on such folk performing arts as the Kida of Yatsushiro Myoken Festival at Yatushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, the Omi no Hoka at Shinshiro, Aichi Prefecture, the Gujo Odori at Gujo-Hachiman, Gifu Prefecture. All of these folk performing arts have experienced to be invited to play on the stages at the large-scale festival events. In the events, many folk performing arts were selected to play on the festival stage separated from their local context. Those events are the very opportunities in which folk culture, originally peasant culture, is transformed into local culture. National and local governments made significant role on the process by selecting and reevaluating folk performing arts as those representing local identity.