Transformation of School Song Texts and Their Connection with the Local Community in Modern Japan

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  • 近代日本の小学校にみる校歌の歌詞の変容と郷土との関わり
  • キンダイ ニホン ノ ショウガッコウ ニ ミル コウカ ノ カシ ノ ヘンヨウ ト キョウド ト ノ カカワリ

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<p>  This article has shed light on transformation in the content of school song texts and examined why the school song popularized throughout Japan in the 1930s. Schools began to create school songs in the 1890s. When school songs began to be composed, even some school songs particular to each school respectively rarely contained references to the exact location of the school, such as names of local mountains or rivers or historical references. However, since roughly the Taisho era, the description of the local community in which the school was located was increasingly included in the school song. As the movement of local community education developed, in the 1930s, the school song that included the words of geographical and historic environment came to be positioned as the “local community song.” The school song identified as the “local community song” spread to the local community beyond the school. In other words, the school song was sung not only by school pupils and students but also by local people, and then the school’s adoption of this approach led to the school song playing a role in forming a sense of community in the local community. </p>

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