| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 藝術行政與管理研究所 === 97 === Tracking the development and transmission of Western music in Taiwan, from missionaries spreading the Christian Gospel during the Dutch and Spanish colonial periods, to Shoka(唱歌) taking part in modern school education during the Japanese colonial period, we see that Western music has laid its foundation in Taiwanese culture. Generally speaking, the Western music extended its influence within Taiwan along with imperialism and colonization. This thesis statement adopts the ''Sociology of Music'' as research method and ''colonial modernity'' as its perspective to analyze Western music''s development process in Taiwan, the social atmosphere back then, and the vaguely concrete connotation of it, in order to investigate how Taiwanese music was influenced by both ''colonialism'' and ''modernity'' under the colonial circumstances.
Being governed by Japan, Taiwan developed toward modernization, industrialization, and capitalization, which led to the great change of people''s lifestyle and values. First, education through assimilation(同化 Douka) mixed with colonialism and modernity brought in science and rational Western modern knowledge to Taiwan people. Second, the establishment of capitalist economy system caused the rise of consuming culture. Furthermore, a large number of the introduction of European, American and Japanese culture and newly risen technology such as movies, records, and broadcasting all brought stimulations to Taiwanese people''s thoughts.
By examining the education policies and Shoka course in public elementary schools(公學校) during the Japanese colonial period, this research found that the Japanese government took the profit of itself as the primary concern, changing the connotation of music education, and making it become teaching aids to Japanese(国語 Kokugo) learning and one of the tools to nourish people''s patriotic spirits.
Since 1920s, the newly emerging intellectuals in Taiwan generally awoke. They started thinking outside the box, paying real attention to current situation of Taiwan society and extensively adopting worldly ideological trend and modern values. Thus they had played the role of cultural enlightener on the land. By analyzing the Taiwanese popular songs recorded during the Japanese ruling period, we''ve seen the lyrics were under the affection of both ''popularization of literature and art''(文藝大眾化) and ''Taiwanese Vernacular writing''(臺灣話文). As to the melodies, came from the composers of both Western music and Taiwanese tradition Xi Qu(戲曲), trying to combining the modern and traditional elements, integrating the Chinese and Western instruments and applying the Japanese, Chinese, or Western tunes to their creations. Through this ''soundscape'', the musicians had shown their vitality of struggling to free themselves from the colonial ruling bondages and the capacity of Taiwanese society taking in essences of many different cultures.
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