A thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy - Flinders University of South Australia, Faculty of Education Humanities, Law and Theology, June 2003. / Title from electronic thesis (viewed 27/7/10)

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, Dept. of Political Science, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 289-319)

Thesis (M.Nurs.)(Hons)--University of Western Sydney, Nepean, 1996. / Title from electronic document (viewed 25/5/10) Includes bibliography.

「音樂」或「歌」在台灣原住民的生活中有著特殊的文化位置，在「原住民文學」發展之際也屢屢成為難以分割的元素，而在書面文字以外龐大的原住民口傳文學中，音樂或歌曲更是有著舉足輕重的地位。在歌手巴布狄倫（Bob Dylan）獲頒諾貝爾文學獎的今日，不但代表了歌曲文本在俗文學與典範文學中的壁壘再度被挑戰，「流行音樂」所牽扯到的全球架構之流行文化、娛樂產業與庶民生活價值等面向也開始被一併地以「文學」觀點討論。本論文從「口傳文學」與「流行音樂」兩個領域出發，並以唱片公司跨國整併以及在地意識、多元文化價值蓬勃的九零年代台灣為關鍵的時間點，探討「原住民流行音樂」如何成其面貌，以及當中具代表性的可能因素與類型特質。本研究的思考軸線，從「他者」的書寫、「認同」的建構到「差異」類型的成形，在這個演進過程中，當代西方理論的發展已經顯示了一條清楚的路線，它不但可以是個體生命歷程的縮影，與台灣原住民族的近百年來的族群經驗也密切地吻合。本論文首先以認同經驗的層次來檢視原住民「傳唱歌謠」所反映的時代社會性質，以及當中屬於口傳文化「集體性」的展現，並探討傳唱歌謠進入流行音樂框架中的銜接處所產生的關鍵性質差異。其次，討論九零年代的台灣音樂環境，分別從產業、創作製作和文化三個面向進行考察，嘗試描繪出原住民流行音樂成形的狀態。最後，以「流行音樂」的研究觀點來對原住民流行音樂的實際案例進行分析，包含其核心價值與邊界形式的討論，也與全球脈絡中的其他「口傳」族群音樂成其音樂類型並影響主流流行音樂的案例進行對比參照。在這些大主題與「歷史敘事學」（Historical Narratology）式的分析考察中，本文企圖勾勒出原住民流行音樂作為一種音樂類型，在其差異脈絡中的「差異自主性」，相對應於口傳文學「集體性」與某種他者印象中「原住民性」之觀看軸線，作為未來對原住民音樂或其他流行音樂類型可嘗試的一種研究思路與音樂經驗的印證方式。 / The “Music” or “Singing” has a special position in Taiwan’s aboriginal culture. It is not only an indispensable element in the development of “Aboriginal literature” but also very important in the vast indigenous oral literature beyond written languages. Nowadays, Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature as a singer songwriter. It indicates that the steady state of the “songs” between popular literature and classic literature once again been challenged or eliminated, while it also points out that the points of view that popular culture, entertainment industrial, and common people’s life as well as Pop-music are feasible to be part of “literature”. To discuss the reason why “Taiwanese Aboriginal Pop-Music” became a type and how it worked, the thesis starts from the idea of two field, which is “oral literature” and "popular music”. In the year of 90s in Taiwan when the record companies were consolidated across different countries and the booming of the local awareness of the music and the multi-culturalism were as the key successful factors at that time. The axis of this study is the development that from the description of “Others”, the construction of “Identity” to the formation of “difference categories”. It demonstrated clearly in the development of western contemporary theories. It is not only a microcosm of the life course of an individual, but also closely corresponds to the ethnic experience of the indigenous people in Taiwan over the past centuries. First,this dissertation research the social in natures of the periods reflected by aboriginal "oral folk songs” and the “Collectivity” of oral culture among them with the difference levels of identity experience. Then, I explored the key properties that arose when the oral folk songs entering the interface of pop-music. Second, to depict the formation of aboriginal pop-music, I discussed the music environment in Taiwan’s 90s according to three aspects of views, which are industry, creative production and cultural. At last, I analyzed the actual cases of the aboriginal pop-music by the theoretical perspective of “Pop-Music” research, which contains the discussions of its core values and boundary. It also been compared with the cases of other "oral" ethnic music globally, that formed the genre of music and influences mainstream pop music. In these wide range of topics and the research in the light of “Historical Narratology”, I tried to contoured a possible way to research the indigenous music or other music types and to express personal music experience. It depends on the aboriginal pop music, as a music type, has its own “Differential Autonomy” in its context, corresponding to the “Collectivity” of oral literature and the “Aboriginality” from “Others”.