Lorenz, Shanna
(2008)
"JAPANESE IN THE SAMBA": JAPANESE BRAZILIAN MUSICAL CITIZENSHIP, RACIAL CONSCIOUSNESS, AND TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION.
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
This doctoral dissertation is an ethnographic study of musical culture among Japanese Brazilians in São Paulo, Brazil. Specifically, the study explores how the musical culture of this community has changed in recent years as a result of the dekasegui movement, the migration of hundreds of thousands of Japanese Brazilians who have traveled to Japan since 1990 in search of work. In order to explore these questions, I conducted fieldwork between May and November of 2003 on three musical groups, Zhen Brasil, Ton Ton Mi, and Wadaiko Sho, each of which have found different ways to invoke, contest, and reinvent their Brazilian and Japanese musical heritages. By exploring these groups' musical practices, texts, dance, costumes, and discourses of self-definition, this study offers insight into shifts in the ethnic self-definition and racial consciousness of the Japanese Brazilian community that have taken place as the result of face-to-face contact between Japanese Brazilians and Japanese under the conditions of contiguous globalization. This study contributes to our current understandings of the impact of circular forms of migration on the musical culture and ethnic identity of diasporic communities in the contemporary world.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
| Creators/Authors: |
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| ETD Committee: |
| Title | Member | Email Address | Pitt Username | ORCID |
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| Committee Chair | Weintraub, Andrew | | | | | Committee Member | Yung, Bell | | | | | Committee Member | Herlinghaus, Hermann | | | | | Committee Member | Lewis, Mary | | | |
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| Date: |
25 January 2008 |
| Date Type: |
Completion |
| Defense Date: |
27 November 2007 |
| Approval Date: |
25 January 2008 |
| Submission Date: |
6 December 2007 |
| Access Restriction: |
5 year -- Restrict access to University of Pittsburgh for a period of 5 years. |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Music |
| Degree: |
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy |
| Thesis Type: |
Doctoral Dissertation |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Asian American Music; Brazil; Embodiment; Ethnicity; Interdisciplinary; Kinesthetic Imagination; Migration; Music; Music in Latin America; Performance Studies; Popular Music; Race |
| Other ID: |
http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-12062007-182347/, etd-12062007-182347 |
| Date Deposited: |
10 Nov 2011 20:08 |
| Last Modified: |
15 Nov 2016 13:53 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10110 |
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