Abstract
This paper focuses on the situation of folk-song communities and clarifies how they have changed in pre-and post-reversion of Okinawa. In general, today's folk-song clubs are discussed in terms of tourism and art to benefit Okinawa. However, the history of folk pub can be traced back to the folk club, the predecessor of the folk pub, which formed a strong sense of community, gemeinschaft, through mutual communication between local performers and customers in the 1960s. The folk song club had a space which had nothing to do with tourism. However, since Okinawa returned to Japan in 1972, the number of tourists visiting folk song club from mainland Japan has gradually shifted from the local people to tourists and along with this, the system, music, and environment of the folk song club have changed.
Before the reversion of Okinawa, the folk pub used to have communities with strong “performance and audience” solidarity, but after the reversion it has weakened. This has a lot to do with changes on the customer basis but there are other factors that strengthen or loosen the community ties. What is important is not only human relationship but also the relationship between people and stuff for the formation of a community. Taking into account the perspective of ANT, this paper clarifies the process of community change in pre-and post-reversion of Okinawa.
