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"JAPANESE IN THE SAMBA": JAPANESE BRAZILIAN MUSICAL CITIZENSHIP, RACIAL CONSCIOUSNESS, AND TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION

Lorenz, Shanna (2008) "JAPANESE IN THE SAMBA": JAPANESE BRAZILIAN MUSICAL CITIZENSHIP, RACIAL CONSCIOUSNESS, AND TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. (Unpublished)

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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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Item Type: University of Pittsburgh ETD
Status: Unpublished
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Lorenz, Shannashannalorenz@mac.com
ETD Committee:
TitleMemberEmail AddressPitt UsernameORCID
Committee ChairWeintraub, Andrew
Committee MemberYung, Bell
Committee MemberHerlinghaus, Hermann
Committee MemberLewis, Mary
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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