Texts and Songbooks: a Literary Anthropological Study of Ancient Miao Songs (chinese Social Sciences Postdoctoral Library)
by Long Xianyan
About This Novel
In the complete sense, ancient Miao songs should include texts and sung versions. In addition to the written texts collected, translated and compiled by scholars, ancient Miao songs are still circulated among the people in the form of songbooks. The latter is the source and the former is the flow. From the perspective of literary anthropology, this book conducts field research on Miao ancient songs, a living oral poetics of non-Han people. It systematically sorts out the text evolution of Miao ancient songs from singing to recording from multiple dimensions such as lyrics and folk customs, singers and listeners, functions and inheritance. Based on an in-depth description of Miao ancient songs in different dialect areas, it systematically explains the value and significance of Miao oral cultural traditions in China's multicultural landscape.
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