Alice Lumi Satomi
Alice Lumi Satomi. Professor of Music Education courses and the Postgraduate Program in Music (ethnomusicology) at UFPB, where she coordinates the Popular Culture Research and Documentation Center (NUPPO).
Updated June 2008
Stories from This Author
Teaching Traditional Japanese Musical Instruments to Children Within a Transterritorial Context
July 22, 2008 • Alice Lumi Satomi
In the last ten years, I’ve been surveying classes, rehearsals, and presentations of musical clubs belonging to the Associação Okinawa do Brasil (Okinawa Association of Brazil, or OAB), the Associação Brasileira de Música Clássica Japonesa (Brazilian Association of Japanese Classical Music, or ABMCJ), and the group Miwa. The clubs of the first association present a local repertoire – from the Ryûkyû region – while those of the second have opted for a national repertoire. The specific participation of children is …
Organological considerations about Taiko
June 28, 2008 • Alice Lumi Satomi
The taiko soul meaning is: 'the confirmation of our vitality and the cry of our soul'; 'sharing feelings with others'; 'reciprocal stimulation and encouragement'. Daihachi Oguchi (sd: 4) 1 Preliminarily, it is worth highlighting that organology is the study on the ground ( sueokigata ) of musical instruments, focusing not only on the structure and possibilities of the instrument, but also on its geographic, historical and socio-cultural surroundings. The taiko is among the most widespread and played instruments outside of …
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