Perspective Shifts and Disciplinary Differences:Temporal and Geographical Evolutions of Hakka Folk Songs in Terms of Their Connotations and Denotations
The history of Hakka folk songs is actually a broad concept if traced from the perspective of the Hakka people themselves.This concept has endured to the present,encompassing not only various genres of traditional folk songs such as the Hakka ballads,children's rhymes,bamboo-clapper songs,and other renditions from the Hakka opera,but also some"new Hakka folk songs"from Southeast Asia with distinct exotic musical tones.From the scholars'perspectives of music studies,there is a narrow definition of Hakka folk songs,which coexist in reality alongside other genres of Hakka songs.Previous researches have often struggled or neg-lected to distinguish and classify them,leading to conclusions that can be confusing or inaccurate.In order to delve into the musical characteristics of various categories of Hakka songs,scholars of music studies must pay attention to the shift between the perspec-tives of subjectivity and objectivity in their research by carefully defining their research objects instead of simply accepting the un-derstandings of folklore and literature on the connotations and denotations of Hakka folk songs.
Hakka folk songssymbolic transformationregional culturedichotomy between subjectivity and objectivitydiscipli-nary disparities
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