Invocando sons: cartografia de uma prática musical de koto na comunidade Nikkei de Belém

Abstract

The research part of the question: How is (or what is) the musical practice of the Association of Koto of Belém? To answer it delivery of ethnomusicological approach and cartography method to address this musical practice, performing a mapping that aims to understand this object of research. Pareyson (2005) emerges in the survey as structuring method and training of the dissertation, where there are experiences, reports and research data, and own musical instrument (koto) to develop the invocations that constitute the main body text. Immersion delivery as a group member and ethnomusicology of authors who have studied the koto musical instrument. Among these concepts that I share in this research there are: musical Transterritorialization (PELINSKI apud SATOMI, 2004), musical Change (NETTL, 2005; BLACKING, 1995) and musical energy (NETTL, 2005), three of the main concepts used to engage with this reality, this research object within the ethnomusicological approach. Research has shown various characteristics of musical practice in question. During the invocations are being presented, questions are raised so that they can trigger reflections on research and musical practice.