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《冷山》小說和電影中的美國民間音樂DNA
The DNA of American Folk Music in the Novel and Movie of ＂Cold Mountain＂
摘要
《冷山》是作家查爾斯．弗雷澤（Charles Frazier）以美國南北戰爭為時代背景的獲獎小說。1997年出版之後，引起了學術界和影劇界的關注，甚至於舉辦專題討論會，並被拍攝成電影（2003）和改編為歌劇（2015）。故事描述北卡羅萊納州西部阿帕拉契山脈的冷山區人民受戰爭的影響，以及男主角千辛萬苦回家的過程。書中的描述和電影的配合都充滿了民間音樂。電影用作配樂的《神聖豎琴》形狀音符無伴奏合唱尤其引起了廣泛的讚賞。本文研究小說中所顯示音樂在山區人生活中的重要地位，和電影如何配合這些音樂於劇情，以證驗英國學者夏普（Cecil Sharp, 1859－1924）在20世紀初所說山區人「唱歌幾乎和說話一樣普及」。
並列摘要
Cold Mountain is an award-winning novel by Charles Frazier which uses the American Civil War as the historical background. After its publication in 1997, it generated much interest among scholarly and movie circles, including a roundtable discussion. The novel, set in the Cold Mountain area of the Appalachian Mountains in western North Carolina, became the subject of a movie (2003) and a new opera (2015). The story depicts the suffering of the people as a result of the war and the difficulty of the male character's return trip from the war. There are numerous references of folk music in the book and much use of folk music in the movie. The introduction of Sacred Harp shape-note a cappella singing in the film has generated great interest among the public. This research studies how folk music is reflected in the life of the mountain people in the novel and how it is adapted into the movie, confirming English scholar Cecil Sharp's (1859-1924) remark in the early 20th century that to the mountaineers ＂singing was as common and almost as universal a practice as speaking.＂