Cultural Transformation Of Folk Songs Outlook

Culture is the foundation and source of the development of folk song. Influenced by its surrounding culture, folk song reflects and presents the culture with historical accumulation. Culture and folk song complement and promote each other. On the one hand, folk song reflects the social-cultural factors at different times. On the other hand, culture may promote or impede the folk song originating from different periods.The static and dynamic nature of culture determines that folk song’s reflection on culture also has those two features. In a broad sense, culture is diverse in its content, including material culture, spiritual culture and folk culture. Social reality has been reflected by the culture of the certain time, and folk song, as a basic form to reflect social culture, is the static presentation of the established culture of this time. Besides, culture develops with social practice, which brings out changes and reforms of culture. As a result, folk song changes with the culture and it can be shown from the development of different folk songs.Specifically, folk song of northern Shaanxi’s relation with culture also has this fundamental feature. Folk song of northern Shaanxi manifests the regional culture, spiritual culture and folk culture in North Shaanxi. It changes with the society, and shows the dynamic development with the social-cultural background, which can be observed in the development of traditional folk song.However, in the modern society, as social practices have changed, the original cultural soil that used to adapt to the emergence and development of traditional folk song has already changed dramatically. In such dynamic background, the development of folk song of North Shaanxi should bear the feature of inheritance and innovation. Nevertheless, rather than being reflected well, this characteristic tends to inherit more than innovate, which can not meet the basic demand of the cultural development in North Shaanxi and should be reformed.In the development of the folk song in North Shaanxi, the innovative strategies mainly lie in the macroscopic social background and the microscopic concrete operations. In the previous aspect, it is necessary to step up publicity efforts. Government should invest more funds to develop the folk song of North Shaanxi, encourage and support composers of folk song, and make the traditional folk song better adapt to the cultural changes. In the latter aspect, a series of measures should be taken to promote people’s passion in folk song composition.