Xinjiang's Uyghur folk celebration drum band, frequently appear in various commercial activities, the business can be described as extremely hot, but the popularity is only a symptom, the development of Xinjiang celebration drum music is reflecting a problem: in the more than ten years since the emergence of the celebration drum band in Xinjiang, none of them can really form a scale.
Ismail Tieliwar said that Muqam is the "mother of Uyghur music", and that Wang Zhen, Saifuding Azezi and other leaders personally organized and commanded the rescue of this Chinese treasure, and cultivated a professional team to rescue, protect and inherit Uyghur Muqam.
Twelve Muqam is a large-scale traditional classical music of the Uyghur people, bringing together songs, poems, music, dances, singing, and playing. It is a major contribution made by the Uyghur people to the splendid culture of the Chinese nation, which uses various languages and art forms such as music, literature, dance, drama and so on to express the splendid life and noble sentiments of the Uyghur people, reflecting their ideals and pursuits and the joys and sorrows generated under the historical conditions at that time.
Xinjiang Uyghur folk celebration drum music has a long history, has a long cultural accumulation, and is deeply rooted in the Uyghur people. In the past, drum musicians with extraordinary skills demonstrated their drum skills on various festive occasions, while giving people a joyful enjoyment, and when the drum music sounded, Uyghur men, women and children who could sing and dance would respond to create a happy and harmonious atmosphere together.
At present, the folk drum music industry in Xinjiang is in a hot market demand atmosphere, with a large market share, but a lack of competition, and the space for expanding the scale is very large. However, many folk drum bands rarely communicate with each other, but only run around the field with their own care, participate in various celebrations scatteredly, and communicate with the market only through a phone call or a business card.
"China Xinjiang Uyghur Muqam Art" is a general term for various Muqams circulating in various Uyghur populated areas in Xinjiang, and is a large-scale comprehensive art form that integrates song, dance and music. It is represented by the "Twelve Muqams", including "Daolang Muqam", "Turpan Muqam" and "Hami Muqam".
With the further deepening and development of reform and opening up and the market economy, traditional culture is facing the transformation to modern culture. Under the impact of modern culture, people's horizons have broadened, their thinking has broadened, and their pace has been faster, and national traditional cultural expressions such as the northern Shaanxi waist drum and the northeast two-person transfer have developed towards industrialization, and they have also formed their own commercial scale in a short period of time and panned for gold in the cultural market. It is also an important expression of folk traditional culture, and as far as the current development is concerned, Xinjiang's celebration drum music is still a big step away from the large-scale development of commerce.
The phenomenon of Muqam music is distributed in 19 countries and regions in Central Asia, South Asia, West Asia and North Africa, and Xinjiang is at the easternmost point of these countries and regions. As the crystallization of the cultural exchanges between the East and the West, the Uyghur Muqam distributed in the eastern section of the ancient "Silk Road" recorded and confirmed the history of mutual dissemination and integration between the music and dance cultures of different groups.
Twelve Muqam is the main body of Uyghur Muqam, but also an outstanding representative of the traditional culture of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang, it integrates song, dance and music, mainly distributed and spread in Kashgar, Hotan, Aksu and other southern Xinjiang regions and large and small oases in the Ili River Valley, composed of 12 sets of Muqam such as "Lakmuqam" and "and Bibayat Muqam", each set includes "Qiong Nai Erman", "Dastan", "Mai Xi Refu" three major parts, 12 sets of music with nearly 300 songs, all of which take more than 20 hours to sing.
Now the "Uyghur Muqam Art" in Xinjiang, China has successfully applied for the "Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Mankind", which has added cultural brilliance and charm to Xinjiang.