From the point of view of popular culture, music is a more infectious and penetrative media than literature, yet there have always been a lot more gaps in research about music in the Japanese era than about literature. This is because the printed word is easily preserved, but many sounds disappear forever.
從大眾文化的角度，音樂比起文學，是更有感染力與穿透力的媒介，然而，關於日據時期的音樂研究，長期以來卻比文學研究疏漏許多，這是因為文字可以保存，聲音卻往往一去不返。