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The Comparison Of The Wedding Songs Between The She Ethnic Minority Group In Xiapu And The Perimeter Zone

Posted on:2009-03-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y Z XiaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360272998006Subject:Music
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She ethnic minority group call themselves"Shan Ha" or "Shan Da" which meaned "the guests of the mountains." They were generally called "She ethnic monority group" after New China was built. Their habitations are the vast expanse of mountains in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces. Others are distributed in Jiangxi, Guangdong and Anhui provinces. Xiapu's She people lies in Ningde city Fujian province where is with the mountains and sea sightseeing, they lived together with local Han People for a long time. With the development in history, since She people in Xiapu maintain their unique custom of wedding, and they did not stop the interacting between the local Han people, finally they developed a unique charm of their wedding songs.The paper uses She ethnic minority group as a specific object of study, and apply the theory and method of Ethnomusicology to it, at the same time , the paper also do a systematic analysis on the details and song lyric and music morphology . The article made a comparison of wedding songs from the points of musical forms , music morphology ,literary characteristics , performing features and tradition with that of in perimeter zones, in order to search for the characteristic of She people 's wedding songs in Xiapu and make a consideration of the current situation and development of the wedding songs in Xiapu when comparing them. The article think that: because of the difference of the historical culture , She people in Xiapu and the people in perimeter zone have their own special wedding ceremonies , however, living in the same surrounding cause the interacting of the customs and languages in the wedding songs, and share more similarities with the wedding songs in the perimeter zones. Though the wedding songs of She people in Xiapu is on a sticky wicket in local cultural situation, as a special intangible cultural in particular region, its cultural function and value are essential.
Keywords/Search Tags:She ethnic minority group in Xiapu, wedding songs, Han people in perimeter zone, She people in perimeter zone, Comparison, Development
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