试论陕甘宁边区“改造说书”运动

The “Storytelling Reform” Movement in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region

"改造说书"运动是继"新秧歌"运动之后文艺工作者面向大众、面向工农兵普及的又一实践。文艺工作者和民间艺人一起,改造了旧的传统的陕北说书,使之成为反映阶级斗争、生产斗争、军事斗争等新内容的"新说书",并在边区蓬勃发展起来。"新说书"作为一种有效的宣传手段,发挥了开启民智,教化民众;宣讲时事,评议新闻事件;传递战争信息,稳定民心;引导舆论,唤起大众的斗争意识等社会功能。产生了很大的社会影响。

The ＂storytelling reform＂ movement is another practice following the ＂new yangge＇＂ movement lor literary and art workers to disseminate for the public, and for the workers, peasants and soldiers. Together with folk artists, the literary and art workers reformed the old traditional Northern Shaanxi storytelling into ＂new storytelling＂ that began to flourish in the border region with new contents reflected such as class struggles, productive struggles, and military struggles. As an effective tool of propaganda that exerted significant social impacts, the ＂new storytell- ing＂ manifested powerful social functions as follows： enlightening and civilizing the public; publicizing current af- fairs and appraising news events; passing war information and stabilizing popular sentiment; and guiding public o- pinion and arising the public ＇ s consciousness for struggle.