{"id":2595,"date":"2025-03-02T15:35:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T08:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pgvim.ac.th\/postgrad\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2025-03-02T15:35:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T08:35:04","slug":"authenticity-cultural-understanding-japanese-music-ensemble-united-states-case-study-northern-illinois-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pgvim.ac.th\/postgrad\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/authenticity-cultural-understanding-japanese-music-ensemble-united-states-case-study-northern-illinois-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Authenticity and Cultural Understanding in Japanese Music Ensemble in the United States: The Case Study at Northern Illinois University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Authenticity and Cultural Understanding in Japanese Music Ensemble in the United States: The Case Study at Northern Illinois University<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Elizabeth Vieyra,\u00a0Northern Illinois University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This research paper focuses on the setting of the NIU World Music program in DeKalb IL. A Japanese music ensemble was recently started with the help of the instructor, who has a Thai cultural background and teaches a diverse group of students. This raised the question of how an educator with a different cultural background can create a strong foundation to teach a musical culture outside of their culture to cultivate cultural awareness while facing the challenges of authenticity. The methods used included interviews with the instructor, a survey of 4 students, observations through participation in rehearsals and performances, and lastly the review of literature written by scholars. The findings showed that the instructor, born and raised in Thailand, had developed a strong foundation and understanding of Japanese traditional music and instruments through her studies with culture bearers and a good understanding of Japanese culture through her visits and work in Japan and a University there. This strong foundation gave her the tools to provide cultural context to fight the natural problems of authenticity. In conclusion, this research led to a deeper understanding of the importance of cultural context to foster cultural understanding and the need for a strong foundation to teach a musical culture. In the future, this research will be a good guide for educators interested in learning and teaching a musical culture outside of their culture. It will specifically be helpful to Western music educators who are encouraged to include world music in their classrooms which tend to have a diverse group of students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>KEYWORDS:<\/strong> Authenticity, Cultural context, Bi-musicality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authenticity and Cultural Understanding in Japanese Music Ensemble in the United States: The Case Study at Northern Illinois University Elizabeth Vieyra,\u00a0Northern Illinois University ABSTRACT This research paper focuses on the setting of the NIU World Music program in DeKalb IL. A Japanese music ensemble was recently started with the help of the instructor, who has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pgs2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pgvim.ac.th\/postgrad\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pgvim.ac.th\/postgrad\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pgvim.ac.th\/postgrad\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pgvim.ac.th\/postgrad\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pgvim.ac.th\/postgrad\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pgvim.ac.th\/postgrad\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pgvim.ac.th\/postgrad\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pgvim.ac.th\/postgrad\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pgvim.ac.th\/postgrad\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}