Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Layi combines speech and song to express personal thoughts and feelings in verbal music as improvisation, it focuses on the emotions of balladeer, listening to their voice, and considering each Layi lyric as a theme or subject.This paper investigates that layi originated in the oral tradition and performance arts. The focal point throughout this study is to introduce layi in Amdo west China. This includes senses in which the term Layi is understood, as reflected in the Tibetan enumeration layi categories. Furthermore, the lyrics of these layi exhibit Tibetan figurative language in the form of motifs, images, and theme. Most often, layi lyrics express people’s struggles, joys, pains, and thrills as they navigate personal and social relationships and realities.
Authors: Suonan Renqing, Wang Gema
Institution: Hexi University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4414838562
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