On Making "Drumming out a Message": Filmmaking and Marginalized Communities
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Yoshitaka Terada [1]
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[1] National Museum of Ethnomusicology, Japan
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- Localización: Ethnomusicology and audiovisual communication: selected papers from the MusiCam 2014 Symposium / coord. por Enrique Cámara de Landa, Leonardo D'Amico, Matías Isolabella, Yoshitaka Terada, 2016, ISBN 978-84-608-9291-5, págs. 71-83
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Drumming out a Message: Eisa and the Okinawan Diaspora in Japan (2003) is a documentary film about the experience of displacement and the construction of identity in the marginalized Okinawan community in mainland Japan. The eisa, a form of dance performed in Okinawa during the summer Obon festival, was given new meanings when a tradition of performing eisa was newly established in Osaka in 1975. The film tries to capture the voices of the young migrant workers from Okinawa and second-generation Okinawans who, through the process of performing eisa, act on the derogatory images in mainstream culture, and at the same time transform themselves into individuals more resistant to the adversity of such images. In this paper, I describe the process, experiences and challenges of making this film, and analyze some of the critical issues that emerged in the course of filmmaking. I conclude by arguing for the potential ability of audiovisual media in studying and documenting the performing arts of marginalized communities.
