多數人對於流行音樂的印象就是「風花雪月」、「談情說愛」，無論中西， 許多學者都發現愛情歌曲是流行音樂的主要類型。本研究觀察台灣流行音樂的歌 詞文本，著重分析當前的流行音樂如何處理和呈現與愛情相關的議題與概念。本 研究結合量化與質性的內容分析法，分析1989至1998十年間，金曲龍虎榜前十 名278首歌曲，結果發現，台灣流行音樂內容中所呈現的是一個壓抑慾望、充滿 分手的感傷情懷，與蘊含性別從屬關係的愛情世界。

Love is a major theme in popular music, no matter in eastem or westem culture. Since the 1960s, popular music has been studied seriously by western humanists and social scientists. However, there has been a lack of systematic research in music culture in Taiwan. This study intends to analyze how popular music (re) presents love in Iyrics content. This study combines quantitative and qualitative content analysis methods to examine 278 songs sampled from top ten in Dragon- Tiger Golden Songs from 1989 to 1998. The findings reveal that what Taiwan's popular music represents is a love world which lacks physicaI desire, but is full of sadness resulted from separation, and contains sexual biases. Furthermore, this constructed world is far behind changes in real world.

流行音樂;愛情;量化內容分析;符號學

Popular music; Romantic love; Quantitative content analysis; Semiotics