Rong Cheng,Mohd Hassan bin Abdullah

With the advancement of human networks and digital technology, it has not only changed the approach to the inheritance, protection, and development of intangible cultural heritage but also brought new ideas and methods to the fieldwork of ethnomusicology. The accompanying marriage songs of Jiahe County, China, are national intangible musical cultural heritage and are precious and understudied female music representatives in folk wedding rituals. Based on the three research ideas of experience, diversity, and digitalization proposed by the new fieldwork, this paper carried out practical work on the accompanying marriage songs. Specifically, it conducted empirical research on the Internet and on-site fieldwork, multiple and repeated field visits, and the use of digital equipment. It was found that while new fieldwork brought us great benefits in research methods and practice, there were also inevitable "chaos" in terms of the passivity of ritual selection, the use of digital technology, and the lack of a language environment. It can be seen that how to grasp the scale between network & digital technology and on-site in the new fieldwork method is the key to determining the success or failure of fieldwork practice.

The accompanying marriage songs in Jiahe County; New fieldwork; Fieldwork practice; Digital technology; Scale between the internet and on-site

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