ABSTRACT
Bunun musical traditions have been subject to a process of transformation into forms of heritage music: folkloric performances find new life in such settings as festivals, tourist shows, or state-run music education. Bunun today regularly report struggling in the face of prejudice among the Han population, for instance, in terms of earning equal pay for identical work. As part of this, some villagers were striving to have their mother-tongue names appear on such formal documents as their ID cards, rather than either a Chinese name or a phonetic representation of their Bunun name in Chinese characters. Our fieldwork in Buklavu occurred both separately and together for many months between late 2005 and mid-2008, with one further fact-checking visit in 2014 and ongoing contact by telephone and by means of Facebook up to the present moment. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
