The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems. Among them, "National Wind" was a folk song in 15 northern regions at that time. They reflect the complicated social life, class struggle and various living conditions of working people that lasted for more than 500 years from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period (BC 1 1 century to the 6th century BC). Many excellent works, such as "Vatan", "Storytelling", "Decline" and "Jiang Zhongzi", are not only ideological, but also have outstanding artistic achievements. They created many vivid and touching images with clever metaphors. These folk songs vividly reflect the mental outlook and creative ability of the working people in ancient China. Their high popularity and realistic spirit have become a fine tradition of China folk songs.
After The Book of Songs, The Songs of Chu appeared in the 4th century BC. Chu ci includes two kinds of works: one is the poems written by Chu poets such as Qu Yuan, a great poet, according to the tunes of Chu folk songs; One is the lyrics of Chu folk songs compiled by them. The greatest feature of Chu Ci is full of fantasy and enthusiasm, which laid the initial cornerstone for the romantic tradition of China folk songs.
Yuefu folk songs and Xianghe songs in the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties further inherited and developed their fine traditions. "The Battle of the South of the City" and "Joining the Army in the Tenth Five-Year Plan" are excellent folk songs that profoundly reflected the social reality at that time. Due to the need of content, they broke through the four-character poetic style of The Book of Songs in form, developed different sentence patterns and five-seven-character poetic style, and enriched the expressive force of folk songs. This new form is called. "Yuefu Style" has brought great influence to the creation of folk songs and poets in the future. ? The emergence of "harmony songs" has broken through? In the form of "apprentice song", the accompaniment was added. From the songs of the Tang Dynasty to today's rap operas, there is a continuous relationship with them, such as the long narrative "Peacock Flying Southeast", which fully shows the great discovery of song creation.
Although there are not many preserved folk songs in the Tang Dynasty, they were excavated from Dunhuang? It can be seen from the data of Quzi and the records of music words and essays that the creation and dissemination of folk songs in the Tang Dynasty were quite prosperous. Due to the need to reflect the content of life, the folk songs in the Tang Dynasty have been continuously processed by many people, and they have developed in tune style and singing form. ? The emergence of "Quzi" is not only used for solo oratorio, but also widely used in rap, song and dance, which is loved by the people and becomes a bridge for folk songs to move towards more complex art forms. This kind? Qu Zi had a beneficial influence on the development of Song Ci and Yuan Qu.
In the modern period of Ming and Qing dynasties, with the emergence of new capitalist economic factors, a considerable number of excellent folk songs with strong people's nature were produced in the extremely sharp struggle between class contradictions and ethnic contradictions. The folk songs of this period are not only extensive in content, fresh and lively in language, but also more free and lively in form than before. From the songs such as Water and Dragon included in Wei's Qupu, and the traditional brand song Shanmen Liufu in Ming and Qing Dynasties, it has been greatly enriched in terms of lyrics, musical structure and the expressive force of tunes.
After the May 4th Movement, with the rapid development of the people's revolutionary movement, China folk songs entered a new period of development, and the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal fighting theme became its new feature and historical mission.
The birth of China people has given new life to folk songs, and folk song creation has entered a brand-new period. The working people turned over and became masters, and a bright future appeared in front of people. It's like a person who suddenly sees the blue sea after trekking in the desert, and his emotions get excited, and his excited heart keeps pouring out songs. People sang their infinite love for the Party, Chairman Mao and a new life with songs. People have created masterpieces such as Dongfanghong, Our Leader Mao Zedong, Liuyang River and Osmanthus fragrans in August. Folk songs are cultivated in the soil of New China, like wild flowers in the fields in spring, dense and swaying. The fertile soil of socialist folk songs is displayed before our eyes, and the songs of working people are soaring and resounding through the sky.
The party and government attach great importance to the collection and arrangement of folk songs, and send working groups to rescue and excavate traditional folk culture, especially folk customs on a large scale. Starting from 1984, the editing work of China Ballad Integration was carried out. Through these large-scale activities, folk songs have been preserved and made indelible contributions to enriching and carrying forward the excellent folk culture of the Chinese nation. Cultural comparison of the United States (China, Britain, continental Europe, etc.). ) is relatively short; In addition to listening to some American sad songs, dance music and jazz music, we will also hear many second-generation native American heartsongs, such as Woody Guthrie's; This land is my land, Oh Susanna, Michael, Row the boat ashore and so on, all of which are typical American folk songs. And The Weaver (pete seeger), Kingston Trio, Highway Man, etc. It can be said that what I know is the pioneer of American folk songs.
As for being called American modernity (it was called modernity in the 1960s, but we were called the end of postmodernism in 2004); The father of folk songs is Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan; It is called' the father of modern folk songs' because it rebelled and accused in other normative forms for the first time in the 1960s, and added its poetic discourse. He wrote a lot of music that can represent the land and culture of contemporary America and the mentality of a new generation of intellectuals and young people. ; And these words and songs can really influence the culture of the United States and other parts of the world (not just music culture) directly, indirectly and from generation to generation.
A hymn; As for other western folk singers you often hear, PPM's favorite (I believe) are Peter, Paul and Mary, Simon and garfinkel, Donovan, Joni Mitchell, john denver and so on.