Progress of musical communications of bluegrass music fans through 1960s in Japan From the aspect of music acceptance and developing music community through live performances 1950 1958 60 1960 The origins of bluegrass music in Japan can be traced to the broadcast of occasional mountain music songs and instrumentals on Armed forces radio broadcasting in the early 1950s. In 1958, the term bluegrass began to be used in some music magazines, and the first musicians identifying themselves as bluegrass began performing in some concerts. This article traces the process of the bluegrass acceptance in Japan and the subsequent development of a community based around live performances, especially on university campuses. Members of this community were also involved in the music business and attention will me given to the number and variety of bluegrass recordings released on Japanese labels and the ways in which this and other activities contributed to the maintenance of a stable music community in subsequent decades. Bluegrass music 1960 s students concert musical communication developing music community 1 2 3 1 U 2 3 4 1
1940 1958 1 2 1930 Mitsui 1993 Alan Senauke 286 60 70 1 Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys SP 2
Mitsui 1993 279 2001 69 2008 120 2 1950 1963a 3 1950 50 51 C&W 1 1978 41 52 3 SP 351 2 28 9 54 54 3 1950 4 56 50 2009 45 58 1 Flatt & Scruggs Mitsui 1993 4 10 12 2009 50 59 3
1959 18 9 31 57 1963b 9 10 59 6 1 5 FEN NHK 6 2 1927 2000 50 60 58 1 4 45 7 59 12 Don Reno & Red Smiley 7 59 3 2 11 10 LP 8 1953 1959 LP 60 3 12 LP HV 1048 12 Stanley Brothers 2 2 BLUE GRASS SPECIAL 24 4
66 67 9 10 61 6 Blue Grass Music 3 61 4 61 3 8 10 12 62 1 60 62 64 62 5 1 63 1 63 50 62 63 64 1960 60 Mitsui 1993 281 63 10 Pete Seeger 1 282 10 24 1 8 3 1958 10 OB 5
9 1959 5 11 1 10 1958 bj m f bs 21 8 13 1958 BG 1960 1993 17 8 11 55 7 Are You Missing Me I ll Always Be Waiting For You 29 1961 1 12 30 1961 2 59 11 1987a 21 22 1988 17 60 5 4 6
13 59 11 14 60 61 86 12 24 61 1 U 60 1961 3 U 15 59 6 60 5 4 60 1 3 1 326 1 30 2008 3 4 16 66 11 5 25 7
1 U 1 4 1 11 3 3 9 1 4 5 4 6 2 3 7 8 9 8 63 10 63 9 U 14 5 62 5 63 12 70 3 5 3 6 11 13 15 8
1961 7 2 1987b 31 4 Country Gentlemen 65 5 17 1 66 11 25 2 60 2 63 66 2 U 1961 2 17 U 2 10 18 3 2008 8 VAN U 9
CBS 61 2 CBS CBS Country Music Blue Grass Music Sacred Tune 62 10 59 63 9 19 1,200 30 65 10 FMU USA 65 48 FMU 4 2008 University College C&W C&W University U U 60 10 82 103 2 3 60 2 3 1965 3 17 2 1 2 179 181 6 66 7 5 8 Let s Play Banjo 5 VAN 10
VAN 20 50 2008 102 50 60 50 54 58 102 60 61 3 2 62 11 AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC SOCIETY 1 63 4 64 C&W You All Come 10 65 30 C&W 30 2 C&W 50 64 4 1 2 66 4 OB 11
4 4 A 4 B C 70 12
1958 60 62 67 6 21 60 3 60 60 60 13
1 2002 7 2007 1 2 SP Kentucky Waltz/The Prisoner s Song 1993 SP 1950 3 3 & 24K Lonesome Pine Fidders 2003 50 60 3 LP 4 2008 5 2 59 6 1993 1958 3 10 7 60 8) 1959 6 50 61 3 63 5 7 9 MS 4 4 pp21 22 60 6 Juke Box 5 Juke Box 2 10 1960 1265 1 EMB 76 14
11 11 1936 3 1954 2 12 29 61 4 10 13 14 15 U U University U You You 16 326 1 240 2 86 1,100 522 578 2,008 6 700 2,062 1,186 876 17 73 18 63 6 64 6 6 41 9 10 19 2010 4 5 62 7 2 CBS Family Jamboree 63 9 Q&A 32 C&W C&W CWMS(Country & Western Music Society) SWFC(Sunday Western Fan Club) CBS Family Johnny Cash Fan Club All U Jubilee C&W CWMS C&W 32 20 2 U VAN 245 21 1966 7 9 15
2004 239 1964 2008 2008 12 22 1958 8 7 1959 9 7 1987 4 12 28 30 1967 Folk Singers 30 1 1961 HOWDY! 9 1963 Q&A Ranch 2 1978 86 1963a 2 1963b 3 1988 5 4 2008 2008 6 1 12 7 2008 1950 1 pp120 8 2009 3 pp39 55 1997 1979 2000 1927 2000 1976 73 1987a 4 4 21 2 1987b 4 5 31 4 1960 10 1 2003 CWMS 1 738 1993 10 10 17 9 Mitsui Toru 1993 The Reception of the Music of American Southern Whites in Japan, Rosenberg Neil V. ed. Transforming Tradition, pp275 293, University of Illinois Press Mitsui Toru 2001 Far Western in the Far East: The Historical Development of Country and Western in Post-War Japan,Hybridity, pp64 84, National University of Singapore 16