Líng Líng Records Releases Taiwan Indigenous Dance Songs

Source: The Transmission, Publication, and Evolution of Lu Sen-bao’s Music
From: Indigenous Peoples Cultural Heritage Electronic Journal, Issue 18
Date: December 2014Author: Hsu Jui-kai

Taiwan Mountain Compatriots Dance Song Collection, Volume 1 is the earliest known postwar Taiwanese mountain pop album. In the 1960s, Ling Ling Records of Sanchung released a series of “Taiwan Mountain Folk Songs” records. Several of these were performed by members of the Puyuma people of Nanwang Village in Taitung, and included works by Lu Sen-bao. In 1961, the Nanwang Minsheng Music and Entertainment Troupe (twelve members in total — five female vocalists: Wu Hua-zhi, Wang Zhou-mei, Chen Chun-hua, Chen Xian-jiao, and Wang Mei-mei, and seven male accompanists including Chen Qing-wen, Zhuang Yong-fu, Chen Hong-jian, and Wang Bing-yuan) returned from a military performance tour in Kinmen and recorded two records at a Taipei studio. Released by Ling Ling Records, they were titled Taiwan Mountain Compatriots Dance Song Collection, Volume 1 and Taiwan Mountain Compatriots Dance Song Collection, Volume 2.

Album cover of Taiwan Mountain Compatriots Dance Song Collection (provided by Hsu Jui-kai)

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• The Musical Legend of Nanwang Village — The Nanwang “Minsheng Music and Entertainment Troupe” (Council of Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Peoples Cultural Heritage)
• The Rise of Postwar Indigenous Records in Taiwan: A Case Study of Ling Ling Records (1961–1979) (Journal of Taiwan Studies, Issue 4)
• 1950s–1970s: Taiwan Anthropologists and Indigenous Peoples Research (Sparks of Plural Discourse in an Authoritarian Era)