A Study on the Artistic Styles, Formation Mechanisms, and Integrative Innovation of Music in the Minyue Cultural Circle

Abstract

The music of the Minyue Cultural Circle shows features that differ from other forms. These features develop from conditions relating to location, population groups, and shared memory across communities. Traditional elements in this music undergo changes in structure as media forms change and as development occurs in related areas. These changes produce interactions between the process of forming identity, the means of expressing features particular to cultures, and the movement of forms across regions. The patterns that show how features develop in this music reflect factors that relate to values in society, structures used in practice, and patterns in language. The development of this music in the current period depends on conditions relating to technology, on structures in related areas, and on the movement of cultural forms. The process that combines different approaches and that produces changes in forms presents multiple paths. This process includes examining traditional components in different ways and using resources from other domains. It also includes changes in structures that provide support. These changes allow music from the Minyue Cultural Circle to maintain a state that shows both stability in structure and the capacity to include different elements.