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Shin NAKAGAWA

Abstract:

Community Redevelopment through Socially Inclusive Arts: A Case Study of Osaka

With the outbreak of the global financial crisis since 2007, the range of social problems occurring as a result of globalization are clearly and dramatically intensifying.  In this climate, the problems of relief for socially disadvantaged persons and social participation and inclusion have assumed a renewed and enhanced urgency and in this presentation, I would like to consider a method of resolving the issues of social exclusion based not on a shift in economic assistance or the welfare system, but on the activities of socially inclusive arts in Osaka.

Short CV:

Shin Nakagawa is a professor of Asian Culture and Urbanism of the Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, Osaka City University. He has been working on soundscape and music in Southeast Asia and Europe, and got his Dr. from Osaka University of Arts in 2001. He won the cultural prize from Kyoto Prefecture in 1990, Kyoto Music Prize in 1992, Suntory Prize in 1992 and Koizumi Music Prize in 1993. He has written many books including Heiankyo Oto no Uchu (The Sounding Cosmos of the Heiankyo Capital) in 1992, which was published in Germany in 2000, and Musik dan Kosmos, Sebuah Pengantar Etnomusikologi, Yayasan Obor, Indonesia in 2000.  He recently published his first novel, titled Sawa Sawa in 2003.  He learned Javanese gamelan music in Central Jawa and organized the gamelan group "Marga Sari" in Osaka, which holds concerts many times a year. He is very enthusiastic in making and playing contemporary gamelan music and collaborates with various artists and musician, e.g. Makoto Nomura, Philip Corner, Jose Maceda, Akio Suzuki, Vincent McDonald, David Kotlowy, Masahiro Miwa and others.