聽見臺灣南管歷史的聲音兼談臺灣南管音樂的發展－從台灣南管有聲出版品說起(1980-2005)

Abstract

Nankuan music has been prevalent in Minnan area as early as the seventeenth century, and was brought to Taiwan by immigrants more than two-hundred years ago. Thanks to the introduction of recording technology to Taiwan in the beginning of the twentieth century, people nowadays could learn the development of vocal styles of Taiwan's Nankuan music of the past hunderd years, not only from literature, but also from these historical sound recordings.With the progression of technologies, sound recordings of Nankuan music range from 78rpm and 33 1/3rpm (turntable), cassettes, CDs, MD, to MP3 and more. Recording companies might have pressed them for entertainment or commercial purposes, and merely a small amount of recordings were preserved, but they have become the only available audible early music sources for music scholars, which are the most objective documentations available now.Although historical recordings have poor quality due to immature technology, they have incomparable historical values. These recordings have let us hear a disappearing tradition, let our elders dream about the wonderful old days, and proofed to scholars whether the tradition has been changed.To help readers understand the development of Nankuan music in Taiwan and access to this music genre, this article begins with a review of the Nankuan recordings, followed by the thread of developments of both Nankuan recording publications and the Nankuan music performances in Taiwan.