Tradition, modelling, mechanisms: research on the path of intangible cultural heritage protection for fishermen's music culture in northern Jiangsu

This paper discusses the development trends and preservation strategies of the culture of fishermen’s groups in northern Jiangsu in the context of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The paper selects three main projects in the cultural life of these fishermen, namely, the fishermen’s haozi, which reflects and expresses their basic way of labour; the paifu, an important boat-building technique; and the yugu, a ritual activity that accompanies them throughout their lives. This paper is project-focused and fieldwork-based, and while telling the stories of the inheritors, it also quotes and connects a lot of opinions and viewpoints from others who are not often placed in the research centre in the ICH system, such as government officials, grassroots cultural workers, folk scholars, media, and family members of inheritors, aiming at presenting a more comprehensive, detailed, and dynamic ecology of the functioning of the ICH. This paper departs from the conventional thinking of ICH research, i.e. exploring non-heritage and tourism, non-heritage and technology, etc. Instead, I start from the practical point of view, face the core of the ICH mechanism, explore the relationship between it and grassroots cultural departments in the establishment, institutions and practices, demonstrate and reveal the distinctive development environment and status quo of China’s Intangible Cultural Heritage under government intervention. This paper was written when China’s ICH has been developing for 20 years, in which it has successfully established theoretical, personnel and institutional frameworks, and all parties are operating under the guidance of these frameworks regularly. In my opinion, it is a good time for reflection and review. In addition, the ten-year fishing ban that occurred among the fishermen’s community during my study made my study results even more urgent and have realistic meaning.

Grantor dc:publisher

University College Cork

Year dc:date.issued

2023

Author dc:creator

• Li, Weiyang

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Stock, Jonathan
• Khalil, Alexander

• Fishermen's music
• Intangible cutural heritage
• Applied Ethnomusicology

Statement dc:rights

• © 2023, Weiyang Li.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10468/15919

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:cora.ucc.ie:10468/15919