In 1943, during the Japanese occupation era, the music scholar Kurosawa Takatomo traveled through 150-plus villages of the nine major aboriginal peoples, collecting nearly 1000 songs and generating more than 20 record albums. He introduced these to UNESCO in the 1950s and wrote articles about what he learned about aboriginal music.
一九四三年，日據時代的音樂學者黑澤隆朝走遍全島山地一百五十餘個村落，採集歌謠近千首，製成唱片二十餘張，並且在一九五二年向聯合國教科文組織推介，並發表論文介紹其對民族音樂所帶來的啟示。