The Investigation And Research Of Puppet Shows In Suichang County

The dissertation which takes the puppet shows of Suichang County in Zhejiangprovince for object employs the measures and viewpoints of sociology of music andethnomusicology to process social investigation and case studies. The writer would doher endeavor to consider the puppet show, a kind of both cultural phenomenon andartistic existence, from multiple subjects, orientation and visual angles in the contextof natural circumstance, social environment, and humanism condition morecomprehensively. The dissertation, then, would research the chosen topic from itshistorical vicissitude, organization, daily life, economic operation, performance,music, drive force, media, characteristics and social functions respectively, and alsodo writer's best to cast off the obsolete methodology of musicology research in whichonly the music noumenon is taken into account as well. The dissertion would finallyanalyses the reason of why the puppet show of Suichang County is on the situation ofpredicament from the viewpoints of social context; the writer would eventually putsforward some feasible suggestions, which are derived from the status of SuichangCounty, for the future development relating to the culture of Suichang puppet shows.