基督教音乐活动与艺术人类学阐释——以云南芭蕉箐苗族为个案

Christian Music and Interpretation from the Perspective of Artistic Anthropology: A Case Study of the Miaos at Bajiaoqing of Yunnan Province

苗族作为云南受基督教影响最大的少数民族,基督教唱诗已然成为其重要的文化表征,对苗族民众的日常生活、价值观念和审美趣味各个方面产生巨大影响,并在其日常生活中呈现出了多姿多样的功能色彩。唱诗的内在组织特征和外显展演形式,正是艺术人类学的学术观照对象。艺术人类学以美学和艺术哲学的理论思辨作为潜在资源,以人类学的田野实证、实践体验作为具体路径,表现出来的敏锐现实介入力和问题阐释力正好成为阐释唱诗这一基督教音乐文化活动的有效理论视角。该视角着力于探究基督教音乐艺术实践的形塑功效,试图从音乐活动的展演切入到音乐主体的审美趣味,从而突破和超越了既往对该问题研究的平面描述模式。

The Miao Nationality in Yunnan is the minority group that has received the greatest influence from Christianity. Christian hymns have become their important representation of culture and exert great influence on their daily life, values and aesthetic orientation and have various functions re vealed in their daily life. The internal traits and external presentation of Christian hymns are the academic focus of artistic anthropology. With the aesthetic and artistic philosophy as the potential resources and the field-work and actual experiences as the approaches, artistic anthropology embodies the admirable capacity of actual participation and interpretation, which offers a good theoretical angle for interpreting Christian hymns. This angle aims to explore the formative effects of Christian music as an artistic practice and tries to interpret the aesthetic orientation of the music subject through this musical performance, which has transcended the past superficial explanation of this Christian music.