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Where to find world music

"Taiwan still lacks a means of bringing world music to a larger audience," said Chung She-fong (鍾適芳). Major media outlets have few professional critics who write about this music category and there is no relevant music magazine in Taiwan.

There is one radio program that showcases world music, produced and hosted by writer and music critic Ho Yingyi (何穎怡). The show, Taipei Big Ear (台北大耳朵), is aired on Saturdays and Sundays from 1am to 2am on Philharmonic Radio Taipei.

Ho's translated book World Music CD Listeners' Guide (漫遊歌之版圖) is the first such book in Chinese.

Apart from Trees Music & Art, there are two local record labels that specialize in world music. One label, called Wind Music (風潮唱片), has a series called World Music Library, which was produced by Japan's King Production. Its Ethnic Music Hall series is an award-winning ethnomusicology production, incorporating eight albums from Taiwanese Aboriginal tribes, six from Taiwan's Pingpu people, one each from Tibetan and Hakka groups and one of southern Taiwan folk songs. The music was collected and produced by the late music scholar Hsu Chang-hui (許常惠) and ethnomusicologist Wu Rung-shun (吳榮順).

Sunrise Records (上揚唱片) has two world music series, the Taiwan Native Folk Songs and the World Music Series.
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