英文摘要
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This article studies three modern Amis ballads of the Falangaw area in Taidong. By exploring the content of lyrics and the creation process, this article aims to explicate how the ballads represent local history, tradition, and whose life of the Falangaw Amis. The first ballad is the ”Song of Labor,” which authorship and date are both uncertain. This piece describes the situations and feelings of the Falangaw Amis while they were forced into hard labors during the Japanese colonial period. Towards this period, the present-day Falangaw Amis generally retain a negative, sorrowful memory. However, the lyric of ”Song of Labor” implies more than just sorrow. The lyric of the second ballad ”Song of Mahengheng” was written by a local intellectual, Kuo Guangye. In his script he recorded the process of the composition and his ambition to construct the ethnic identity through eulogizing the much-respected chieftain Mahengheng. The content of the lyric also reveals the contemporary perspective of the Falangaw Amis recount their ethnic origin and the history of the villages. The third piece is the ”Song of New Falangaw.” In this ballad the Amis reflected their geographic environment and community construction after territory expansion, immigration of Han people, and the establishment of the satellite villages. The widely disputed claims of its authorship serve to reinforce the consistent feature of collective authorship in aboriginal songs. This research concludes with a discussion regarding songs. The fixed lyrics are usually considered a primary characteristic of the modern Amis songs. By repeated performance of the fixed lyrics, the modern Amis songs transmit experiences and memories of a culture through its local creativity.
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