Listening to the Colony Kurosawa Takatomo and the Wartime Survey of Formosan Music (1943)

1943年，在太平洋戰爭期間，由黑澤隆潮等三人所組成的調查團渡洋來臺，完成了日治時期最大規模的全島音樂調查。又在九死一生中將調查成果帶回日本。他們為什麼要做此調查?他們的調查是如何進行的？完成了什麼樣的成果?這些成果有什麼樣的後續發展?他們眼中的臺灣音樂生活是什麼樣的情形呢?

本書利用調查團留下的一手資料,回到歷史現場,重建調查團的組成動機和調查經過,解析其調查方法和成果,並透過調查團的見聞,探討戰爭時期臺灣漢人音樂情形以及日治時期臺灣原住民音樂的變遷

Wang Ying-fen’s new book, Listening to the Colony: Kurosawa Takatomo and the Wartime Survey of Taiwan Music (1943) (National Taiwan University Library, 2008), restudies the works of Japanese ethnomusicologist Kurosawa Takatomo (1895-1987), a pioneering authority of Taiwan aboriginal music, who is known for his important 1943 survey on various musical traditions in Taiwan, including those of Han Chinese, under the commission of the Japanese colonial government during WWII.

In her book, Ying-feng examines the Kurosawa’s survey against the backdrop of Japanese colonialism in Taiwan, and investigates the wartime musical life of Han Chinese in Taiwan as well as the continuities and changes of aboriginal music in colonial Taiwan. Meanwhile, Ying-fen and her project partner, Liou Lin-yu, are co-producing a CD-set, entitled Sounds from Wartime Taiwan: Kurosawa and Masu’s Recordings of Taiwan Aboriginal and Han Chinese Music (National Taiwan University Library, forthcoming 2008). The CD-set reproduces Kurosawa’s 1974 album Music of the Taiwan Aborigines (originally released by Victor in 1974) and many of his unreleased pre-1960s recordings of Han Chinese traditions in Taiwan.