Song Censorship Decree Issued
查禁歌曲法令頒佈
Source: A Time of Censorship: Discourse on Cultural Hegemony in Taiwan’s Song Prohibition
From: Chinese Communication Association 2002 Annual Conference Paper
Date: June 30, 2002 Author: Chen Hui-ling
From the declaration of martial law in 1949, the Nationalist government’s suppression of daily life in the name of anti-communism was pervasive. The most direct pressure on creative content came notably from the Seventh Joint Conference of the Taiwan Provincial News Bureau’s Song, Drama, and Publication Review and Prohibition Committee in 1950, which resulted in 122 songs being placed on a banned list — the Nationalist government’s first categorical enforcement of song prohibition in Taiwan. Most of the banned songs were classified as “yellow” (indecent or decadent), and the majority were Mandarin-language pop songs originating from Shanghai; Taiwanese-language songs were subject to less rigorous scrutiny at the time. Subsequent waves of prohibition decrees greatly expanded the number of banned Taiwanese-language and Japanese-language songs.
The Song Prohibition handbook issued by the Ministry of the Interior in 1971.
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External Links
- Notes on Banned Songs During Taiwan’s Martial Law Era (Hometown Moon Blog)
- A Complete Retrospective of Taiwan’s History of Song Prohibition (Story)
- Three Phases of Song Prohibition in Taiwan — All Works Deemed Pro-Communist Are Banned (Central News Agency)
- Sing a Banned Song, Serve Three Years: The Song-Singing Prison of the Martial Law Era (People News)
- An Era That Could Not Be Silenced: On Taiwan’s Song Prohibition and Purification (Friday Philosophy @ Boston)