Trial 臺灣日日新報 音声文化データベース Taiwan Nichinichi Shinpo Sound Culture Database [12/1~12/31/2020]
For more details please refer to :
http://sound-culture.infolinker.com.tw/ntumusic/menu/en_intro.pdf (English version)
http://sound-culture.infolinker.com.tw/ntumusic/menu/jp_intro.pdf (Japanese version)
"The musical life in Taiwan under Japanese rule went through significant changes due to the influx of Western and Japanese music as well as modern sound technology such as gramophone records and radio broadcasts. However, past research on the history of music in colonial Taiwan tended to over-rely on oral history due to insufficient attention and access to written sources. Meanwhile, past research on Taiwanese history has long overlooked sound, and yet studying history from the perspectives of sound and auditory culture has been the trend in international academia in the past two decades.
In view of the above-mentioned gaps and recent trend, the Graduate Institute of Musicology at National Taiwan University (NTU) , collaborated with NTU Library and Transmission Books & Microinfo Co.(TBMC) to create the Taiwan Nichinichi Shinpo Sound Culture Database. The reason for focusing on Taiwan nichinichi shinpo is because it was the longest-standing and largest newspaper in colonial Taiwan, and therefore provides rich data for studying the daily musical life and sound culture.
The database covers the period from the year Taiwan Nichinichi Shinpo was launched (1898) to March 31, 1944, after which date Taiwan Daily News merged with other newspapers into Taiwan shinpo (Taiwan News). The total number of entries is 357,200, with more than 20 million characters of metadata. It includes any articles that involve musical sound, including performing arts ((such as dance, opera, drama), mass media (such as records, radio broadcasts, and films), activities (such as ceremonies, rituals, temple festivals, parades), etc. The content of the database mainly concerns Taiwan and Japan, but it also covers China, Korea, Southeast Asia, and other parts of the world."
