Bunches Of Flowers And The Land They Grow In

For analyzing the social function of certain form music, it isnecessary to study how music interacts with individuals and social groups. Asfar as the present studies of Hakka music, researches given to different musicgroups and their interaction is far from enough and systematic. Thus, thisstudy aims at exploring the interactive relations between different groups inHakka music activities in Meizhou district and, therefore, explaining theprocess of how Hakka music fulfills its social function.This paper tries to study the style and features of different groups’musical performance and understand the process of how these groups interactwith other groups by analyzing individual attitude towards music and theirmusic behaviors, after which the author comes up with two major ways ofinteraction building on current basis. The first way is to choose which groupfor one to join in mainly based on personal preference, during which Hakkamusic serves as the medium. This process plays a vital role in keeping Hakkamusic activities popular among local people. The other means of interactionbuilding is based on the bond through inheritance. This process integratespeople of different ages and enables individual taste to be influenced by oneanother. Group activities involving these two modes of interaction actuallydetermine the existence of the living Hakka music. This phenomenon reflectsthe existence of a musical genre. This existence is a developing processwhich combines with social and cultural activities.