地方戏剧在乡村公共文化生活变革中的价值——以广西平南牛歌戏为个案

地方戏剧作为一种传统文化娱乐方式,对村落公共文化空间的构建意义重大。随着当下乡村文化生活因国家力量的逐渐退出由公共性、全民性、狂欢性转向私人化、小众化、日常化,以牛哥戏为代表的地方戏剧依托民间礼俗与民间力量的积极介入契合了这种发展趋势,使转型时期农村萎缩的公共文化空间得以激活,并渗入农民的私人生活领域建构出新的社会功能,实现自身繁荣,成为支撑新农村文化建设的关键力量。因此,政府应积极引导与合理介入,挖掘包括地方戏剧在内的传统文化样式以满足农民的文化需求。

Value of rural drama in the change of public cultural life in rural areas: Through the case of Pingnan Niuge Drama in Guangxi

As a traditional culture entertainment, the performance of rural drama is important to the establishment of the village’s public cultural spheres. When the state’s strength gradually drop out from the village, the characteristics of village’s cultural life is from public, universal and orgiastic to private, individual and routine. Niuge Drama has relied on folk customs and non-governmental forces to match this trend, and activate the dwindling public cultural spheres. It has also permeated the domain of peasants’ private life and construct a new social function. Finally, rural dramas has realized its own prosperity, and become the key supporting force to cultural development in rural areas.