Phonographs, Graphophones and Gramophones in the Early Japanese Colonial Period of Taiwan (1898-1910) －Based on “Taiwan Daily News”
Date Issued
2009
Date
2009
Author(s)
Wu, Yi-Ling
Abstract
Based on the firsthand-organized materials of the gramophones-related reports in “Taiwan Daily News” from 1898 to 1910, this thesis mainly portraits the contiguous development history of record-playing equipments (phonographs, graphophones, gramophones, and other talking machines) imported, marketed, and used in the early Japanese colonial period of Taiwan. There are four chapters in this thesis. The motivation and purpose of my research, reference of related topics, methods and materials, the grief early history of record-playing tools and early Western record industry are arranged in chapter one. In the next place, by understanding the early era of gramophones in Japan for a start, I chose three business-correlated topics to discuss the gramophones in Taiwan, which include imports, commerce, and market mechanism through newspaper ads. Chapter three focuses on the function of playing music in diverse places in Taiwan, for the gramophones are used more than just to play records in this early period in the first place. The themes of different type events using gramophones as music-playing devices are classified according to the purposes, covering business use, government-participated circumstances, charity and other concerts, religion ceremonies, private societies or clubs enjoyments, leisure tools, and other special conditions. By describing the usage, the people and the environments happened when the gramophones played music in those defined incidents, I believe it will outline the various appearances back to early colonial period when Taiwanese listening to the gramophones. The conclusion is to combine those observations upon business and musical cases and sour out the trend of gramophones’ growth from 1898 to 1910 in Taiwan. From farther aspects, I think it will not only provide one dimension of Taiwanese music life, but also make up for the unknown early history of record industry in Taiwan. Moreover, it won’t be excluded from the regional studies of the early oriental record industry development, which is waiting to research further and more.
Subjects
phonographs
graphophones
gramophones
talking machines
Japanese colonial period
Taiwan daily news
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