A Study On Five Revolutionary Folk Songs In Shaanxi-gansu-ningxia Border Areas

Consisted of five revolutionary folk songs in Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border areas, the vocal collection"Five Revolutionary Folk Songs in Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Areas"shows to some extent the integration of artistic expression and integral thinking of creation. Originated from North Shaanxi folk songs and"Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia revolutionary folk songs", the five songs in the collection have their original tunes and poems changed to some extent. Of the five songs, the song"Morningstar Lilies Are Red and Bright", with its tune originated from a tune in Shaanxi and Gansu, has higher artistic nature. The five songs integrate each other to draw out historical scenes in Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border areas to show people's cultural memory for Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border areas. With strong regional cultural features and distinctive revolutionary cultural characteristics, this collection was popularized during the period of the"Cultural Revolution". It promoted the"lifting"of the ban of"revolutionary historical songs"at the end of the"Cultural Revolution", thus contributed to some extent to the normalization of Chinese musical life during the period of the"Cultural Revolution"and was secured a special historical position in the history of the 20th-centry's Chinese music. The popularization and spread of this collection have promoted the cultural position of"Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia revolutionary folk songs", meanwhile as a red cultural resource, enhanced the"cultural soft power"of North Shaanxi and the old"Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border areas".