Cultural Theories on Arts and Performing Arts of 20th Century Okinawa

这个项目研究了与20世纪冲绳各个艺术领域有关的交叉问题。音乐、工艺美术、文学和旅游四个不同的研究小组从事各自的项目。音乐小组考察了冲绳音乐家及其在冲绳美军基地及其周围的活动。该组还分析了二战后EISA的发展，阐明了表演艺术的动态和变化。美术手工艺组融入了性别视角，揭示了战后美军存在对冲绳美术的影响。这个团体还展示了公共雕塑在二战后冲绳的城市和文化复兴政策中所扮演的角色。该文学小组对Kumodori采取了一种新颖的方法：该小组使用了城市文学的视角来评论Kumodori的戏剧Temizu Noen。旅游小组比较了印度尼西亚巴厘岛和二战后冲绳的文化旅游政策，并进一步讨论了文化旅游政策。该项目整体上研究了20世纪冲绳不同艺术领域和表演艺术之间的多层次相互关系。

This project has examined cross-cutting issues pertaining to various realms of art in20th century Okinawa. Four different research sub-groups, music, fine arts and crafts,literature, and tourism groups, engaged in their respective projects.The music group examined Okinawan musicians and their activities on and aroundUS military bases in Okinawa. This group also analyzed the development of Eisa afterWorld War II and elucidated the dynamics and changes of the performing art.The fine arts and crafts group, incorporating gender perspectives, shed light on theinfluences of post-war US military presence on Okinawa’s fine arts. This group alsoillustrated the roles that public sculptures have played in Okinawa’s urban andcultural revival policies after WWII.. The literature group took a novel approach to Kumiodori: the group employed theperspective of urban literature to review Temizu no en, a Kumiodori dramaThe tourism group compared policies of cultural tourism between Bali, Indonesiaand Post-WWII Okinawa and developed further discussion on policies of culturaltourism.The project as a whole examined the multi-tiered inter-relationships among differentrealms of art and performing arts of 20th century Okinawa.