Ethnomugicological Research of Minolities in South Western District of China

本课题组受日本文部省委托，从跨文化的角度研究大喜马拉雅国家的民族音乐和音乐文化，从巴基斯坦、印度北部、尼泊尔到不丹、中国。目的是在音乐人类学理论的基础上，通过搜集民间传统、音乐、爱情等方面的资料，把握相关人群的文化认同和文化适应现实。结果：1989年野外调查主要集中在云南和广西地区。前者以泰、彝、派、苗等民族为重点，后者以瑶、创等民族为重点。在中国工作人员的协助下，研究了他们的仪式音乐和节日音乐，声乐和器乐，以及相关的民间传说。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、民间信仰等角度分析所获得的数据。讨论：上述地区位于东亚常绿森林文化带，从喜马拉雅山南麓一直延伸到中国南部。该项目将其独特的文化作为主要目的之一进行研究。然后项目工作将于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.