英文摘要
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The so-called ”Shan-di music” (aboriginal ”mountain music”), a product of the record industry in Taiwan from the 1960s to the 1970s, is an important social and cultural phenomenon, a manifestation of popular literature in contemporary aboriginal social lives. Deemed to be the source of power and liveliness in the aboriginal culture, it encapsulates the dynamics of active participation, multicultural fusion, and the mass sharing of content; it overcomes social stratification and pervades the daily life of all members. Its production reflects the symbolic power at work in the Taiwanese society, embodying the complex multiethnic history of politics, economy, and culture. In other words, aboriginal ”mountain music” mutates in response to the evolving economic and political climate, hence developing very diverse aesthetic characters, and a chronological account of this music simultaneously reflects the history of contemporary aboriginal life. For this reason, studying the social history of this music is one of the more efficacious ways of acquiring genuine appreciation of aboriginal societies and their historical developments. However, to date, there have been few such studies. Using the aboriginal ”mountain songs” issued on records from the 1960s to the 1970s as the basis, this paper compares the record production and competition among three major labels, namely ”Ling-ling,” ”Chun-hsing” and ”Hsin-hsin,” and addresses the interactions among audience's taste, profit-seekers' music production, and musical identity. It describes the marketing mechanism of aboriginal ”mountain songs” from the 1960s to the 1970s and the re-emergence of aesthetic symbols. It also discusses how the changes of the auditory habits and the social environment among generations of aboriginal people feed back on music production and identity making.
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