You take the high road, I'll take the low In 1977, the heated nativist debate in literature spilled over into the world of music, and people began to ask whether the music composed using techniques transplanted from the West was not simply the product of the ivory tower, out of tune with the real voice of Taiwan's people.
你走陽關道，我過獨木橋一九七七年，鄉土文學論戰的砲火，延燒到音樂界，人們開始質疑移植西方手法所創作的樂曲，是否只是象牙塔裡的的產物，不能與台灣民間真正的聲音契合。