- 著者
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柴田 康太郎
- 出版者
- 美学会
- 雑誌
- 美学 (ISSN:05200962)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.68, no.1, pp.109-120, 2017 (Released:2018-07-01)
Movie theaters in the silent era had a feature as a concert hall. Especially in Japan in
the Taisho era, they were central places where ordinary people heard Western music.
Though they are important case for Japanese receptive study of Western music, how
film audiences received it had scarcely been investigated. This study, focusing on
some theaters in Tokyo especially around 1920 and 1927, tries to show their receptions
of Western music. First three sections consider on the audiences’ columns in the
pamphlets issued by one of the main movie theaters, Teikokukan in Asakusa. They
show that audiences were so interested in Western music which was frequently played
as intermission music that, when the same music was used for film accompaniment,
it sometimes gained audiences’ attention more than the film it was used for. But until
1927, musical medleys had gradually gained popularity as a new form of intermission
music. The popularity was based on each tunes’ associative images which had been
formed in audience through their repetitive use in film accompaniment. The peculiar
associations formed in the movie theaters gave birth to a unique musical practice.