Taiko meanings at Instituto Cultural Nipo Brasileiro de Campinas / Significados do taiko no Instituto Cultural Nipo Brasileiro de Campinas

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

This research investigated the meanings of taiko at the Instituto Cultural Nipo Brasileiro de Campinas (ICNBC). Taiko is a musical, percussive, bodily and collective practice, which uses the Japanese drums (taiko) as main instruments. The ICNBC is an association for the social gathering of Japanese descendants, through various activities, including what the native called as “cultural activities” (designating those originated in Japan) among which taiko figured prominently, at the moment of this research. The taiko group “Wadaiko Tsubame Nipo Campinas” was formed by young people engaged in social activities that occurred beyond this practice, including the participation in the age groups kodomo-kai (group of children), junia-kai (group of teenagers) and seinen-kai (group of young adults), in community events, in other “cultural” and sports activities, among other areas. Whereupon this broad and ethnically-centered participation, the research focused on those aspects which constitute, on the one hand, the belonging and, on the other, the autonomy of the practice in relation to the community context. With this approach, meanings such as “discipline”, “union” and “leadership” were described in their broad and specific aspects, giving rise to discussions of “identity”, “hybridization”, “ownership”, “sociation” and “sociability”.

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praticas corporais ethnic identity identidade etnica community sociabilidade bodily practices sociability comunidade

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