多元混成 踽踽独行——论先秦时期信阳民歌的文化背景和生存环境

Cultural Background and Developing Condition of Xinyang Folk Song before the Qin Dynasty

笔者本着大处着眼小处着手的学术态度,试从音乐学角度择取信阳民歌的先秦时期这一文化片断来审视其文化背景和生存环境,意在循着历史的足迹探究民歌文化在其赖以生存的政治、经济、文化的大背景下的结构、形态和流变规律。经考辩发现:一、信阳位于华夏文明三大源头的汇合点。二、信阳民歌在几千年的历史长河中始终与其文化背景和生存环境保持全息对应。三、这种全息对应彰显出信阳民歌文化的古老特性。

From the angle of musicology, choosing the Xinyang Folk Song before the Qin Dynasty, the author tries to scan the cultural background and the developing condition in order to probe into the structure, form and changing law of the folksong culture, which existed on the basis of the politics, economy and culture of that time, along the historical track. After some textual research, the author concludes that first, Xinyang locates at the confluent point of the three great headwaters of Chinese civilizations; secondly, the Xinyang folk song retains whole correspondence with its cultural background and development condition; thirdly, this whole correspondence shows some ancient characters of the Xinyang folk song.