| Aesthetic anthropology studies, in the background of globalization, the changes of aesthetic culture and art practice in small and weak nations and marginal groups. Especially because of the impact of modern economy, technology and culture brought by globalization, the traditional culture of the small and weak nations and marginal groups is confronted with great challenges. What are their possibility, mode, motivation and mechanism if the tradition and modern life combine, whether they can obtain their own existing space and voice their national culture when culture is multilized and so on are what aesthetic anthropology must probe into. Aesthetic anthropology consider the arts and aesthetic activities of small nations are connected closely with the experience of actual life, and aesthetic value not to be separated from political value, economic value and ethical value. As a result, aesthetic activities should be studied only when they are put in concrete social changes and cultural environment so that the richness of its cultural connotation and aesthetic value can be known and so as to find the connection between aesthetic activities and actual life . The special group culture of Black-clothes Zhuang, a branch of Guangxi Zhuang, was unknown over a period of time. However, it has recently drawn our attentions gradually, when the traditional culture is experiencing enormous transformation and changes, influenced by politics, economy and exotic cultures. In the ken of aesthetic anthropology, take Black-clothes Zhuang's folk-song culture as the study object, based on the field investigation in Black-clothes Zhuang and its first-hand materials, the text preliminarily studies their folk-song culture's headstream, sorts and singing customs. The author think that Zhuang's folk-song culture is a kind of aesthetic ideology, and folk-song arts'connotation exists in the whole process of the sing activities are not in art symbol isolated and static. Approaches the folk-song culture's rich connotation from the angles of singers and singing masters'formation, the essence of love songs, the meaning of singing festivals and so on. In the course of modernization, Black-clothes Zhuang's folk-song culture does not disappear but open out their abundant aesthetic connotation and meaning after they use the advantages brought by the modernization. Black-clothes Zhuang use folk songs as a carrier to strengthen their group sense and cultural identification. During the exchanges and interactions with exotic cultures, its cultural self-consciousness has been gradually built up, and has shown their special sense of cultural competition and expressing mode in the process of resisting the cultural oppression. They also positively study new approaches to promote their social development with their cultural resource. The modern changes of Black-clothes Zhuang's folk-song culture show that cultural globalization is an inevitable historic trend, but globalization/nativization, modernization/nationalization cannot make up of a simple relation of opposition and collision, since the economy, technology and culture of various nations and regions are unequal and their locations in the coordinates of globalization are different. As a matter of fact, under the pressure of exotic economy, cultures and the like, the negative and behindhand factors in the cultural bedrock of national arts will be impacted and destroyed, while the positive and sturdy factors in it will be motivated so as to realize the production and re-production of national culture and facilitate the national arts to develop with brighter characteristics. Under the circumstance of socialistic art production, national arts may play a positive role of aesthetic ideology during social changes and development, and become a tractive power in the development of economy, society and culture in minority regions. They are not a simple "other", but both an important cultural and social resource and an orientation which cannot be neglected in the cultural construction.
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