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Listen, the Island Is Singing: Taiwan Folk Songs, Culture, and Social Change
Use music to settle the heart in an age of solitude
Completed · 32 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
A Storyteller Wants to Tell You His Own Story Chang Chao-wei × Cheng Qing × Sylvia Chang: Folk Songs Filled a Missing Piece in the Heart 1. Hearing the Familiar in the Strange: A Soundscape Journey of a Minnan Descendant 2. Songs across Taiwan: A Clamor of Voices in That Era 3. Rock's Ferry: Western Music, Antiwar Currents, and Our Songs 4. Ara Kimbo: The Child on the Ox Returned, Only to Find Time Had Rushed By 5. Yang Xian: A Folk Singer from the Road Returns to Frogs, Grass, and Earth Chang Chao-wei × Ara Kimbo: If People Cannot Love Their Neighbors, I Cannot Stop Singing Chang Chao-wei × Yang Xian: Beneath the Calm Surface Lies a Vast Ocean of Life 6. Li Shuangze: Be Free in Life and Walk a Bright Road 7. Yang Tsu-chun: The Guitar Knight on the Grass Enters Political Life Chang Chao-wei × Yang Tsu-chun: I Awoke, and Hope Those Who Hear Me Will Awaken 8. What Story Lies behind the “Island Love Song” on the Spring Festival Gala? | Campus Folk I 9. Wounds of History and the Heart Need a Bandage | Campus Folk II 10. We Share Youth That Fades and Love We Cannot Hold | Vernacular Movement and Taiwan Folk I 11. Forget Its Backbone and Roots, and Folk Song Becomes Mere Artiness | Part II 12. Can You Hear the “Forgotten” People Singing in Anger? | Nativist Arts I 13. Reality Is Filled with Suffering, Bankruptcy, and Alienation | Nativist Arts II 14. Did We Change the World, or Did the World Change Us? | Taiwan Music in the 1980s I 15. Flip-Flops, Dance Halls, Banned Books, and Strikes | Taiwan Music in the 1980s II Chang Chao-wei: Is Your Inner World a Walnut Shell or Thirty Thousand Miles of Earth? | Special 16. From Qiu Chen's Human Scene to Li Ziheng's Echoes of Home | After Folk's Ebb Chang Chao-wei × Yang Du: History Gains Meaning Only by Returning to Warmth and Respect for People 17. From Pete Seeger's Lead to Bob Dylan's “Defection” | Collective and Individual in Folk I 18. Not Only an Atomized Me, but an Empathetic, Connected Us | Part II 19. Planted for Those Who Left and Hearts That Cannot Return | Labor Exchange Band Chang Chao-wei × Zhong Yongfeng: Twenty Years Writing Songs for Those Unheard 20. Spring Will Always Return and Warm This Sentimental World | Documentary Arts Chang Chao-wei × Banu: You Have Your Own Valley and Moon—Whom Else Must You Worship? 21. Conclusion: From Great Dream to Tea under the Moon, We All Need a Song of Our Own Chang Chao-wei × Sylvia Chang × Kay Huang: What If an Era No Longer Moves the Heart? Chang Chao-wei × dy: From Folk Movement to Singer—Why Is Chinese Pop Growing Duller?