The Left-wing Film Song Lyrics

In the left-wing movie movement, films music，in particular creationof the films song is the most fruitful part. These songs not only had apositive impact on society, but also many songs are sung by peoplenowadays, which becomes a part of the nostalgia. The left-wing filmssongs and movies were produced in the30s of the20th century. Specialtime background maked the theme of the song have the era’s mark.The left-wing workers insisted that music was the " weapon “of the fight.These films songs expressed both politics and art concept, which wereincredible in the songs creation history. This article analyzes and sums upthe features of lyrics of the left-wing films songs according to the text,themes, aesthetics and other aspects, attempting to find the deepconnotation and significance of the lyrics text.The first chapter describes the formation of the left-wing films songsand the development of lyrics.For the films narrative and expressionneeds, the left-wing films songs can be divided into theme songs andinterludes,the lyrics of which are often analyzed in this essay. Thoughthe concept of lyrics formed since ancient times, modern lyrics beganto win widely awareness and acceptance since the left-wing filmssongs. So lyrics of the left-wing films songs is the best template in theresearch of modern lyrics in modern times.The second chapter analyzes lyrics’ characteristic from the subjectof lyrics of the left-wing movies, the absorption and utilization ofChinese classical literature and left wing musicians “decadent music”argument. In the30s of the20th century, the nationalitys contradictoryhad become the Chinese biggest contradiction, Anti-imperialism,anti-feudalism and saving the nation from subjugation against Japanbecame the subject which the lyrics must express and fulfill. In the lyricscreation, the song writers were influenced by the traditional poetry literatures. They rationally utilized the "imagery" theory in the lyricsconstruction to increase literariness for this special literature style.Meanwhile, the salvation concept by the left-wing music hadcontradictions and conflicts with the concept of urban music by LiJinhui. Till now, this conflict still creates controversy between researchers.Art itself is full of diversity. But under special background, the salvationconcept dominated others. The concept of urban music by Li Jinhui,which was thought of a way of enlightenment, had differences from the"weapon" theory advocated by the left-wing music.The third chapter observes society as a whole from urban and ruralgeographical, studying the lyrics text perception for society as a whole,in which it can reflect the author’s different emotion for urban and ruralcultures. This chapter selects the most representative intellectuals andwomen at that time for example to analyze their change underspecial background.The fourth chapter analyzes the modern aesthetics reflected by thelyrics, paying attention to "salvation". The left-wing films songs tie in withthe movie theme and the need of the times, but the value of"enlightenment" was ignored in the study by later generations. Theyhold the opinion that "Salvation is over enlightenment". This articleattempts to analyze the value of underestimated "enlightenment", thusto prove the "double variation of enlightenment and salvation". Theleft-wing songs inevitably influenced urban modernity based on theleft-wing films, but the urban life’s experience of the immigrant of theintellectual and the farmers maked them have more local feelings, sothe modernity and tradition can co-exist on the lyrics.We need to deeply understand and objectively analysis history andculture. To surpass history through reviewing history, it is fundamentalpurpose of all historical research including this article.