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The article titled "Sounds of Love and Sorrow" discusses the groundbreaking nature of the film by Hu Taili, which explores the making and playing of bamboo flutes among Taiwan's Indigenous Paiwan community. The film challenges the traditional representations of Indigenous music in ethnographic documentaries and the rise of new Indigenous talent in the Taiwanese music industry. It focuses on the emotional lives of the Paiwan elders and the cultural associations between flute music and their ancestral spirit. The film also opens up the possibility for cross-cultural comparisons and highlights the commonality between the Paiwan people and others who find pleasure in expressing sorrow and desire through music. [Extracted from the article]

To analyze the different poetics of working-class and intellectual popular history, this paper compares two koa-a-hi ... (Taiwanese opera) performances which take Qing dynasty Taiwan as their setting, and are loosely based on the same folk legend. Kam Kokpo Goes to Taiwan (Kam Kokpo Koe Taioan ...) was performed at a temple festival in Taipei, in the bricolage o-pei-la ... style; India Coral Reblossoming (Chhiatang Hoe Khui ...) is an original "refined" opera performed at the National Theater. Kam Kokpo is a farce about class relations; India Coral is a tragedy about ethnic relations. Kam Kokpo constructs an allegorical relationship between the past and the present, in which characters stand for abstract essences. The combination of the "real" historical setting with the o-pei-la style makes the characters simultaneously social types and moral exemplars, allowing for a critical reading of both contemporary class relations and a traditional moral economy. In contrast, India Coral constructs a relationship between past and present that is analogical--the Pingpu aborigines were to the Han settlers as Taiwanese are to Americans. Despite the opera's explicit purpose of constructing a unique Taiwanese identity, its analogical poetics ironically replicate a distinctly American model of ethnicity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]