The Study Of Opera The White-haired Lady

The White-haired Lady, no doubt, has been considered the masterpiece of the Yan'an Times, whose stagings, audiences and influences are the most and greatest in number during the second half of the 19th century and has become the masterpiece of literature and art of the Yan'an Times. This dissertation has tried to study production and communication process of opera The White-haired Lady, that is to say, to trace back to the vividness of history. At the same time, this dissertation has also tried to date back to the production process of 'the new ballad of Chinese nation', shown adaptation process from legend to opera, described revision process of the revolutionary narrative and traced the line of communications of The White-haired Lady. And more, this dissertation has looked into its process of canonization, made every effort to approach the original state of the historical text and looked for the shifts of this kind of text. In the jointly part of historical text and textual history, this dissertation has pursued the possibility of modernity of Yan'an Literature and Art, discussed the complex relationship between the Yan'an Literature and Art and modernity and shown confusion and ideal, common sense and tacit agreement, contradiction and conflict in the course of construction of the modernity of Yan'an Literature and Art. On the basis of this, my dissertation has dissected constructiveness and discourse of the revolutionary canon and studied Yan'an Literature and Art in the perspective as broad as possible, breaking through the political limits of the former study model' The study of production process The White-haired Lady first of all is to describe the artistic context for its birth and trace back to its 'front text'. It is just this artistic context that has provided soil, nutrition, resource and direction. To create so-called new culture on the basis of cultural desolate land has been full of both hardships and imaginations. Yan'an has purified its cultural resources, identified the sustainable tradition and especially found the irreplaceable roles in the process of creating ever played by the folk culture. Therefore, a new cultural order, with the folk culture as the center, has combined other 'legitimate' resources and moved towards the modern and revolutionary direction. Ever since Talk, the new culture of Yan'an has its conceptions into practice so that it has initiated 'Yangge Movement' in a great scale. In this process, folk form and revolutionary discourse, as well as modern art and traditional form has been combined, which can make the marginal and feeble Yangge into the dominant cultural circle. The Yangge Movement has embodied the start-point, aim, motive and contradiction. Besides, the reforms of Yangge Opera have attracted especial attention because the narrative aspirations of ideological discourse have been in a close agreement with the far-reaching influence of song and dance opera. Yan'an on the basis of preserving the aesthetics of folk Yangge has successfully replaced its secular and erotic contents, and has combined the modern playwright techniques into the opera, greatly enhancing the narrative ability of the Yangge Play so that the Yangge Opera has finally developed into multi-screen and large-scale Yangge Opera telling of the complex historical changes from the mini-opera. When the Yangge Opera was in its full maturity, Yan'an, motivated by the impulse of creation, aspired to surpass its established achievements and create newer folk song and dance operas. It is just at this time when the legend of 'white-haired fairy lady' has entered into Yan'an. Therefore, the situation of legend 'the white-haired fairy lady', infact, is the alternative process of 'national new song opera' and the adaptation process of 'revolutionary narrative'. However, this process is not calm. On the one hand, because of the pressure of 'creation', the creative collective has launched an explorative movement of art, when confronted with the strangeness of 'national new song opera' a...