When Music And Politics Are In Hand

This paper is discussedon the basis theory of historical musicology and ethnomusicology. It focuses onHikaru Hayashi (1931-2012),the composer of the 1930 generation in Japan, and attempted to analyze his musical works through musicology so as to find out how the political factors affect his works, and how the works keep the connotation of the Japanese national uniqueculture under the cloak of modern under the special circumstance of The Second World War.In detail, the author makes the analysis in a triple perspective. Firstly, it finds the music compositions and the composer’s special life experience to estimate the influence of aesthetics and music view. Secondly, it integrates the social history and music forms closely in the view of musicology in order to discuss the deep reasons for the formation of the musicstyle. Third, it discusses the composition concept and the political and social cultural property of his works under the social and historical perspective. Of course, there are two key clues run through the paper. One is how Hikaru Hayashi learning and absorbingtraditional, modern, western and easternculture. The other is how Hikaru Hayashi turns composition, the individual behavior, into a process of concentrating on and criticizing the reality, and also givesa new connotation to "nationalism".This paper uses the research method which combines ethnomusicology and the historical musicology. Each music piece is regarded as a unit and will be analyzed by musicology.From the aspects of work, personality, culture and history, it considers the factors such as Hikaru Hayashi’s personal characteristics, life experiences, composing habit, in order to comprehend and recognize the features and compositing process Hikaru Hayashi’s works much more comprehensively, objectively and thoroughly, as well as to reflect the deep connection between Hikaru Hayashi and his native culture, by putting the object into the historical and cultural background at that time.