Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(B))
Project Year: 2007 - 2009 Investigator(s): Hermann GOTTSCHEWSKI
Machines, i.e.mechanical devices that are created to perform a certain action repeatedly, were used since antiquity as a model for natural processes such as the movements of the sky and thus had a highly symbolic value. Music also was often interp...
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(B))
Project Year: 2003 - 2005 Investigator(s): Yoshiaki SATO
By analyzing thousands of collected songs, we have arrived at a clear picture of how Japanese popular songs in the periods 1880s-1960s reflect the reactions of its people under the pressure of modernization cum Westernization. The old premise that...
As for this research, the following results were gained about the various aspects of the interactivity of arts.1.The interrelation between narrator and listener in the process of transmission of the medieval legends, the influence of written docum...
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(B))
Project Year: 2000 - 2002 Investigator(s): Yoshiaki SATO
The results of our research made possible by this grant can be summarized as follows :(1)We retained the stance of looking at singing and dancing in Japan in connection with external cultural influences, and thus analyzed American popular music, f...
As for this research, the following results were gained about the various aspects of the media strategy of arts.1. The actual condition in which literature and theology contributed to the formation of the society layers and the value communities i...
