The Development of Guó-yuè（國樂）in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Chen, Cheng Kang, 陳鄭港
• Other Authors: Chang, Jiunn Yih
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/yq5542

博士 === 國立政治大學 === 民族研究所 === 101 === Nowadays, the so-called “Chinese Music Orchestra” in the field of performing art generally means the orchestra arrangement that centers on the combination of sizhu, stringed, and percussion instruments in Han Traditional Music. It is called “Zhōng - yuè（中樂）／Chinese Music” in Hong Kong and Macao, “Huá-yuè（華樂）／Chinese Music” in Southeast Asia. People in Mainland China call it “Mín-yuè（民樂）／National Music”, while it is called “Guó-yuè（國樂）／Traditional Music” in Taiwan. Therefore, it has diversified names in the music circles. The traditional Chinese music in modern times has nearly-identical orchestra arrangement and musical instrument systems, but it is endowed with different definitions in Chinese areas. This indicates the different orientations and references to the histories, societies, and ethnic cultures in different areas. The progress of the modernization of Han Traditional Chinese Music has started for more than one hundred years since the end of Qing（清） dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. Such a process was so solitary and frustrating. However, there are still the needs for completing the academic care for culture studies, the local management of contemporary music culture, and the subjectivity discourse of the development of traditional music. Consequently, many researches are often perplexed by non-artistic interference caused by the ups and downs swinging in the situation of the cross-strait situation. Especially, sufficient developments are not achieved yet, in terms of the profound researches regarding sociology in the aspects of ethnology/anthropology. The scope of the thesis is based on the concept regarding ethnology, for the purpose of culture researches on the correlation among the sound, behavior and concept of music. Through contextualized thinking, it intends to investigate and research the construction, use, propagation and development of Han Traditional Music Culture in Taiwan, so as to expound music features, patterns of change, and unique cultural meanings. Therefore, the research method in this thesis is mainly based on Participant Observation Method that needs a researcher to engage in field excursion and experience. Information Review is mainly undertaken through the perspectives such as cultural holistic view, multiculturalism, and cross-cultural comparative study. As for research processes, Document Analysis and Field Research are undertaken simultaneously, aiming to establish a text of qualitative research. Also, through the theories and viewpoints about ethnology/anthropology, it aims to clarify the development history of Taiwan’s traditional music as well as the cultural context hidden behind. This is to explore the diverse and uneven cultural identity of Taiwan’s nationalism , tradition and music cultures demonstrated through the exchanges, overstepping and conversions in many different processes. This study has excavated the passages regarding “Taiwan’s Huá-yuè（華樂）” in the Recording Industry in the Japanese Colonial Period that had once been died down in the world. Further reviews are made, aiming at the commonly-seen “China Transplant Theory” in traditional music in modern times. Also, the starting point of the modernization development of Taiwan’s Han Traditional Chinese Music has been deduced back to 1914 when first album of Taiwan’s traditional music had been recorded and released, instead of 1949 when KMT government moved to Taiwan. Based on concrete recording in the history as the example, this aims to achieve the historical depth for enlarging research issues, so as to construct an academic structure with centennial development history. Therefore, in this study, the process of the modernization development of Taiwan’s Han Traditional Chinese Music is divided into three historical stages. Stage 1 includes the Japanese Colonial Period and former times, a period for Han Artistic Cultivation and the germ of modernization. Stage 2 centers on the times after World War II─ a stage in which the cross straits were separated, confronting with each other. Cultural connections as well as the accumulation of development energy were formed, due to many factors such as the political premiums provided by public sectors, the experience transplants from Mainland China, and the imagination about Tang Shan（Chinese） wonderland. Stage 3 is the period after Taiwan had lifted its martial law. In this stage, cultural rumination began to take place gradually in the period between the end of last century and the beginning of this century. It is the stage for us to see solid local cultivation as well as abundant exchange sharing when the 21st Century began. In terms of the issue regarding the correlation between the modernization development of traditional music and the regimes of modern countries, this study aims to unfold the process how Taiwan’s Han Traditional Music─ a kind of social culture that used to be relatively marginalized─ has been gradually included into the modern national system and how it has experienced national management, by means of the features of ethnology combined with humanities research. The research findings indicate: In terms of cultural affairs, in fact a “country” is not similar to the concept─ a political regime with definite borders and high homogeneity─ expressed in many traditional theories. Instead, it is an unstable combination of many correlated international cultural blocks. As for the explorations of a country’s cultural policies, cross-country perspectives are also prerequisites. The Taiwan in the 21st Century has become an example, due to its multi-cultures sprouting from the movements from different social groups, as well as the circulation of international consumer capitalism. Such an argument can be used for stating that Taiwan’s traditional music has changed due to the factors in politics, economics, technology, society, regional power and international relationship as the era changes. Also, a very common phenomenon of cultural dispersion in the contemporary age has been reviewed. By means of the three cultural development theories “Chinese Localization”, “ Localization ”, and “Ethnic Boundary Research” that have different viewpoints, this study not only intends to discriminate the compound relationships among music, countries and multiculturalism, but also intends to give detailed explanations of the experiences of cultural disapora and the construction of cultural identify. The modernization development of Taiwan’s Han Traditional Music can reflect our life, while our life has contributed to such a music culture as well as human groups’ vibrant vitality for hundreds of years.