From Offerings,Musical Instruments,Gifts to Arts and Crafts:The Social Role and Functional change of Ancient Yunnan Bronze Drums
The bronze art of ancient Yunnan,represented by bronze drums,has gone through different stages of development of"chaos → differentiation → integration",which greatly influenced the formation and development of the music and instrumental history of the ethnic minorities in southern China and Southeast Asia.This influence is still evident in the traditional music and dance performance systems and related visual art development in various regions.As a researcher facing this kind of intangible cul-tural heritage,it is urgent to recognize the basic cultural position that we are at the important gateway between southern China and the border areas.Given the limitation and simplification of current research thinking and methodology,it is necessary to take ad-vantage of multi-disciplinary and holographic disciplines of comprehensive art schools in order to bring in the ideas and methods of interdisciplinary,new liberal arts research,and regional and country-specific art and cultural studies,so as to strengthen the cul-tural consciousness of forging a Chinese national cultural community internally and building a community of human destiny external-ly,so that it can play a synergistic and integrative role in our academic research and its contemporary application.
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