เพลงเปล และเพลงตนโย้ง การขับร้องพื้นบ้านกับสังคมพหุศาสนาและการกลายเป็นเมืองของตำบลป่าตอง อำเภอกะทู้ จังหวัดภูเก็ต

Abstract

Folk songs are a form of entertainment, society's history, and even narratives. This article aimed to illustrate the musical forms of the folk songs of Pa Tong subdistrict, namely Pleang Plai and Pleang Tonyong, as well as investigate the social changes that affected the survival of the folk songs. So the folk songs then have been found to have a simple and malleable structures, as indicated by the findings. Rather, the other function of the music is to imprint the story of local circumstances. The song, Pleang Plai is for singing while agricultural working and also performed as a lullaby. Additionally, Pleang Tonyong shares characteristics with dialogue songs in that the lyrics combine southern Thai and Malaysian languages. Due to environmental conditions and social factors, such as multi-religious changes and religious prohibitions, as well as accelerated urbanization, the existence of folk songs has dwindled significantly.