Indie Publishers Association of Taiwan

Our memory of a time always goes hand in hand with a song, a name or a film.

Ferdinand de Saussure, the founder of modern linguistics, says, “In the matter of language, one can separate neither sound from thought nor thought from sound.” Examining film scores, old Taiwanese ballads, war songs (such as those used by the Nazis or popular in the Spanish Civil War and WWII), election campaign music, and even special record stores and musical instrument workshops in Taiwan, Sounds of the times reveals the soundscape too often neglected in a grand historical narrative.