Exhibition on modern Taiwanese songs

BY SCARLETT CHANG APRIL 23 , 2018

There is a special exhibition on modern Taiwanese aboriginal songs at the national museum of prehistory in Taitung City.

“We are holding this exhibition mainly because we want to let everyone in Taiwan understand this culture, no matter whether they are aboriginal people or Han people,” said the museum’s public affairs department. “Even the foreigners in Taiwan are all very welcome”

The exhibition is called “The solace of music,’’ and it tells the history of aboriginal songs from the 1990s to the present.

Aboriginal songs have gained recognition since the 1990s, partly because one song was sampled by the group Enigma and used in a television ad promoting the Atlanta Olympics. After that, people all around the world started to follow the aboriginal music with interest. Since then, many creative singers have started to write songs in their mother tongues. They use the music to share their own life experiences and the love of their tribe.

The organizers will invite people from different backgrounds who are genuinely concerned about the assimilation of minority ethnic groups to give speeches, and they will also play some aboriginal music during the exhibition. One of the goals of this exhibition is to let aboriginal people in Taiwan better understand their own culture.

This exhibition runs from February 9, 2018, through March 8, 2019.




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