New Voices of The Boudoir Repinings Poems: Research on Chinese Popular Songs’ Inheritance and Development of The Traditional Boudoir Repinings Poems
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Boudoir-plaint poetry is a common category in classical Chinese poetry. With the development of women's social and economic status since the 20th century, literary works related to "boudoir-plaint" seem to have gradually faded out, while a large number of songs expressing women's emotions and situations have emerged in the modern and contemporary pop music, conveying similar or novel boudoir plaints in both ancient and modern ways. This article selects several highly representative Chinese pop songs depicting boudoir plaints composed between 1930 when pop songs proliferated and the beginning of 21st century that were originally sung by female singers in the past 100 years. In order to explore the inheritance and innovation of the Boudoir-plaints poetry over this period, lyrics will be analyzed in following three aspects, their reference and heritage of classical literature, the continuation and change of boudoir plaints, and the innovation and expansion in composition. It shows that the literary works about boudoir plaints not only did not fade out, but moved with the times, demonstrating a great diversity across time. The boudoir-plaint poets of the new era walk with the times, writing down the joys and sorrows of women of different social strata and life experiences, providing emotional sustenance and cognition for them, contributing to their temperamental refinement and self-cultivation. In this way, the spirit of the ancient poetry is inherited by modern pop songs.
Authors: Yi Wang, Wue Hiong Ser
Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4404702199