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Greeting: Shoichi Inoue (Director, International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
Moderator: Markus Ruttermann (Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies)

Lecture “Cindon's Causal”
Lecturer: Shuhei HOSOKAWA (Professor Emeritus, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Lecture Abstracts
The street merchandise always made voices and sounds to attract the attention of passers-by. In the middle of the Meiji period, advertisers selling information rather than goods began to operate in a large manner, and they used a new Western-style musical band. Hiromeya was also called Jinta. In the beginning of Japan, a large number of movie theaters who were fired by making talkies began to promote the streets and found their base of activity mainly in downtown town, and was commonly called Chindon ya. In most cases, several people are organized and dressed in unusual costumes, holding promotional streamers, playing Japanese and Western instruments and parading. The chindong shop has been familiar to the common people and received contempt at the same time. However, in the 1980s, it began to review “non-music” rather than “less than music” (performances that are not applicable to “music”). Neither a musician nor a connoisseur, neither a concert, a live nor an art or entertainment. The focus is on activities with different purposes and aesthetics tailored to the performance environment. In the lecture, I would like to think about modern Japanese music culture from the aspects of the fusion of Japanese and Western music, the performance space of the street, and commercial activities through the Chindon shop depicted in images, paintings and novels in the first Showa era. *Presentation is in Japanese only

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