The transmission Process of Tujia folksong of Mr. Wang Bo in Guizhou Province, China

Abstract

This research “The transmission process of Tujia folk song in Guizhou Province, China” This qualitative research study had two objective; 1) To study the biography of Mr. Wang Bo and 2) To study the process of transmission folk songs of Mr. Wang Bo. The data were collected at Yanhe Tujia Autonomous County, Tongren City, Guizhou Province, China. The key informant were Mr. Wang Bo and his student, Used interview form. The results found that:

Mr. Wang Bo, He is a native of Tujia. he was born on May 21, 1966. He lives in Banchang Town, Yanhe Autonomous County. His parents are simple farmers and Tujia people who love to sing folk songs. When Wang Bo was 8 years old [1974], he learned to sing Tujia folk songs from his mother. He worked in the Yanhe County Minority Middle School to transmission Tujia folk songs. In 2004, he was awarded the title of Associate Professor.

The transmission process of Mr. Wang Bo has 3 steps; 1) The Preparation process; He will Prepare the lyrics for teaching, give to student first and practiced singing by himself before the actual teaching. 2) The Teaching process; setting small group. Let students to read the lyrics first, he was teaching by singing to the students one sentence at a time. Then have students sing along to him when students can sing, he will teach the next sentence and 3) The Evaluation process; he will observe the progress of each student.

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