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Appreciating Community Art Together—The Songs of Bolinwan
In 2011, PCD facilitated a community art programme in Bolinwan Village of Huaxi Township, Sichuan. A community survey was conducted and it was found that the villagers knew numerous local folk songs and many elderly villagers loved to sing them. We helped them to set up a folk song learning group and to write down the lyrics, record themselves singing them, and build a file on the folk singers in the village. We also encouraged them to teach the folk songs to the village children and to pass on the local culture. In the process, women and children also created new folk songs. We subsequently collected, documented and selected a number of traditional and newly created folk songs and children's songs and published them as a song book. Copies of the song book have been distributed to the villagers in the hope that they will continue to sing and to pass on The Songs of Bailingwan. |