Sounds from wartime Taiwan 1943 : Kurosawa and Masu's recordings of Taiwan Aboriginal and Han Chinese music

"Entitled Sounds from Wartime Taiwan [1943], it is a three-CD set with a 268-page commentary in three languages [Chinese, Japanese, English]. The aboriginal pieces are reproduced from the two LPs issued by Japan’s Victor in 1974 and represent the first recordings that sample the large variety of singing styles among all but one aboriginal tribes in Taiwan. The six Han Chinese pieces are unpublished materials kept at the British Library Sound Archive and constitute the first known recordings of the genres, including Confucius ceremony music, shi-san-yin [thirteen sounds], Taoist and Buhhdist music, and shadow-puppet play. In addition, the CD-set includes a segment of Kurosawa’s voices recounting his Taiwan music. Together these recordings present the results of not only the largest and most comprehensive music survey carried out in colonial Taiwan but also the one-and-only Taiwan music survey commissioned by the Government-General of Taiwan." <http://www.digital.ntu.edu.tw/en/PubDetail.jsp?BookID=3>

The aboriginal music of Taiwan: The Vunun ; The Tsarisen ; The Tsou ; The Paiwan ; The Puyuma ; The Saiset ; The Atayal ; The Sazek ; The Amis ; The Suisha Kaban (Saos). -- Han Chinese music and Kurosawa's speech: a segment from "Music of Southeast Asia" (1963).

Teksti: kiina, japani, englanti.