Musicological aspects of the repertoire divulged by Katsuya Yokoyama (1934 - 2010)

• Grant number: 13/09576-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: October 01, 2013
• End date: March 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Music
• Principal Investigator: Eduardo Augusto Ostergren
• Grantee: Rafael Hirochi Fuchigami
• Supervisor: Kaoru Kakizakai
• Host Institution: Instituto de Artes (IA). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: International Shakuhachi Kenshu-kan, Japan
• Associated to the scholarship: 11/14644-1 - Musicological and cultural aspects of the shakuhachi in Brazil, BP.MS

Abstract

This Internship abroad is part of the master degree dissertation project "Musicological and cultural aspects of the shakuhachi in Brazil", held at the Art Institute of Unicamp with support from FAPESP, and aims to further the knowledge of the repertoire divulged by Katsuya Yokoyama (1934 - 2010), which includes honkyoku solo pieces, chamber music and modern works by composer Fukuda Rando (1906-1976). The study on practices of the Yokoyama repertoire is an essential part of our master's program research, as it is associated with the growing number of non-Japanese Brazilian descendants who devote themselves to the shakuhachi. For the first time in the country a style of Japanese music is practiced by Brazilians with no Japanese ethnicity, in a context different from that of the time related to the arrival of immigrants, thus creating a new phenomenon encountered during our Fieldwork. Numerous questions arise with respect to how the pieces of the Yokoyama repertoire are brought and re-contextualized in Brazil especially in relation to the technical and aesthetic broadcast by Brazilian players of said repertoire. The knowledge and reflections on "imports" and adaptations will be developed in our dissertation through direct contact with the original place of the practice of the shakuhachi at the time of this residency in Japan. (AU)