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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 …

Considerações organológicas sobre o Taiko

June 28, 2008 • Alice Lumi Satomi

O signicado da alma do taiko é:‘a confirmação da nossa vitalidade e do grito da nossa alma’;‘o compartilhamento de sentimentos com os próximos’;‘o estímulo e o encorajamento recíproco’.Daihachi Oguchi (s. d.: 4)1 Preliminarmente, convém ressaltar que organologia é o estuno chão (sueokigata) do dos instrumentos musicais, enfocando não somente a estrutura e possibilidades do instrumento, mas também o seu entorno geográfico, histórico e sócio-cultural. O taiko figura entre os instrumentos mais difundidos e tocados fora do Japão. No Brasil, desde …

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