In 1943, the Japanese scholar Takatoma Kurosawa wrote his masterly study The Music of Taiwan's Mountain Tribes and made recordings of aboriginal music, including songs by residents of Malan.
一九四三年，日據時代音樂學者黑澤隆朝，在其鉅著「台灣高砂族的音樂」及唱片裡，已錄有馬蘭社的樂音。