In the past, speaking Taiwanese dialect was forbidden in schools; nowadays politicians vie with each other in singing Taiwanese songs in public. Concern for native Taiwanese music has been equated with digging up Taiwanese folk songs, and this has meant that modern composition, which is just as much native to Taiwan but more experimental in nature, has found the space available to it becoming ever narrower.
過去在學校不准說閩南語，現在政治人物爭相在公開場合唱閩南語歌，重視本土音樂與挖掘台灣歌謠被畫上等號，導致同樣屬於本土、但比較具有實驗性質的現代音樂創作，生存的空間日益狹小。