Golden Melody Award and Campus Song Competition Wave
金韻獎、民謠風等創作比賽風潮
Source: Golden Melody Award
From: Taiwan Popular Music Wiki
Date: July 20, 2015Author: Kuo Li-wen
On May 6, 1977, registration opened for the “Golden Melody Award Youth Song Competition,” co-organized by Sony, the Sony Cultural and Educational Foundation, and the Yangmingshan Rotary Club of Taipei. The competition was divided into a “public” and a “university” division, with winners selected in “song performance” and “lyric and composition creation” categories. Performance was divided into solo and ensemble; composition was divided into “composing music,” “writing lyrics or composing music,” and “setting lyrics to existing tunes” — all centered on songs and folk melodies selected through the GIO competition. Preliminary heats were held in northern, central, and southern regions; finalists who passed the semifinals and finals received prize money and were offered recording contracts with Sony. In July 1977, Sony’s “Music Production Division” released its first record under the “Hsin-ke Records” brand. In August 1977, Sony provided a one-hour television special, Golden Melody Award, for broadcast on CTV; on December 15, 1977, Sony provided the second installment to TTV. Golden Melody Award was also the only Taiwanese television music program selected by the American Institute in Taiwan (USIS) for broadcast in the United States. The Golden Melody Award competition ran for five editions: editions one through four were held annually from 1977 to 1980, representing the peak years of the campus folk song movement. The fifth edition was held in 1984 but no longer commanded the influence of its predecessors.
The Folk Wind compilation album, released in 1978
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