Beyond 'Innocence': Amis Aboriginal Song in Taiwan as an Ecosystem

By Shzr Ee Tan

Book Overview

Taiwan aboriginal song has received extensive media coverage since the copyright lawsuit following pop group Enigma's allegedly unauthorised use of Amis voices in the 1996 Olympics hit, Return To Innocence. Taking as her starting point the ripple effects of this case, Shzr Ee Tan explores the relationship of this song culture to contemporary Amis society. She presents Amis song in its multiple manifestations as an ecosystem, symbiotic components of which interact and feed back upon one another in cross-cutting platforms of village life, festival celebration, cultural performance, popular song, art music and Christian hymnody.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138115835
• ISBN13: 9781138115835
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"