The Changes of the Performing Gropes of a Festive Music (Matsuri-bayashi) : The case study of Oyama-bayashi of Kakunodate City in Akita Prefecture

The purposes of this thesis are to clarify the features of the performing groups of a festive music of Kakunodate (Oyama-bayashi), and the ways of preserving Performing Arts in local area in times. In consequence of the field works and examining of the local newspapers, conclusions as follows were brought. 1) Oyama-hayashi has been transmitted in relations with other performing arts, the social circumstances and the life styles of farm areas, changing the contexts of performances. 2) Performing gropes of Oyama-bayashi have changed the features of the organizations corresponding to the social changes, and gropes that adjusted to the external changes obtained the opportunities to perform. 3) In results of changes of life styles, the disappearances of Provincial Performing Arts in farm areas, and the increase of numbers of festive cars, the gropes for performing Oyama-bayashi have been gradually organized in residence region of Kakunodate City. And the inhabitants of Kakunodate City became not to regard Oyama-bayashi as performing arts in farm areas. 4) Gropes are unstable, having been so often disrupted, newly organized, and extinguished