@article{ART002686247},
author={Kim Sunghee},
title={International Song Festivals and Musicians’ Sense of the World—Inter-Asian Perspective and Eurasian Imagination in the Study of Korean Popular Song during the Cold War},
journal={Journal of Popular Narrative},
issn={1738-3188},
year={2021},
volume={27},
number={1},
pages={187-225},
doi={10.18856/jpn.2021.27.1.005}
TY - JOUR
AU - Kim Sunghee
TI - International Song Festivals and Musicians’ Sense of the World—Inter-Asian Perspective and Eurasian Imagination in the Study of Korean Popular Song during the Cold War
JO - Journal of Popular Narrative
PY - 2021
VL - 27
IS - 1
PB - The Association of Popular Narrative
SP - 187
EP - 225
SN - 1738-3188
AB - This study examines how international song festivals shaped Korean musicians’ sense of the world in the 1970s and early 1980s.
After the Korean composer, Yi Pongjo, won a top-10 prize at the Yamaha World Popular Song Festival in 1970, an astonishing number of Korean musicians participated in international song festivals held in Japan. Meanwhile, Korean broadcasting companies strengthened their cooperative relationship with Japanese television stations and initiated their own international song festivals in the late 1970s: Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC)’s Seoul International Song Festival in 1978 and Tongyang Broadcasting Corporation (TBC)’s World Song Festival in 1979. During the first two years of its festival, MBC organized its song contest by collaborating with television stations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and the ASEAN countries. However, the World Song Festival was more critically acclaimed because TBC invited renowned musicians from America and European countries, including Yugoslavia, in collaboration with the International Federation of Festival Organizations (FIDOF). Thus, from 1980, FIDOF helped MBC attract composers and singers from Europe and America to their Seoul International Song Festival.
This paper sheds light on connections within the popular music arena between South Korea and the outside world during the Cold War—a subject that has been poorly examined.
KW - international song festival;sense of the world;Yi Pongjo;MBC Seoul International Song Festival;TBC World Song Festival;International Federation of Festival Organizations (FIDOF);Yugoslavia
DO - 10.18856/jpn.2021.27.1.005
ER -
Kim Sunghee. (2021). International Song Festivals and Musicians’ Sense of the World—Inter-Asian Perspective and Eurasian Imagination in the Study of Korean Popular Song during the Cold War. Journal of Popular Narrative, 27(1), 187-225.
Kim Sunghee. 2021, "International Song Festivals and Musicians’ Sense of the World—Inter-Asian Perspective and Eurasian Imagination in the Study of Korean Popular Song during the Cold War", Journal of Popular Narrative, vol.27, no.1 pp.187-225. Available from: doi:10.18856/jpn.2021.27.1.005
Kim Sunghee "International Song Festivals and Musicians’ Sense of the World—Inter-Asian Perspective and Eurasian Imagination in the Study of Korean Popular Song during the Cold War" Journal of Popular Narrative 27.1 pp.187-225 (2021) : 187.
Kim Sunghee. International Song Festivals and Musicians’ Sense of the World—Inter-Asian Perspective and Eurasian Imagination in the Study of Korean Popular Song during the Cold War. 2021; 27(1), 187-225. Available from: doi:10.18856/jpn.2021.27.1.005
Kim Sunghee. "International Song Festivals and Musicians’ Sense of the World—Inter-Asian Perspective and Eurasian Imagination in the Study of Korean Popular Song during the Cold War" Journal of Popular Narrative 27, no.1 (2021) : 187-225.doi: 10.18856/jpn.2021.27.1.005
Kim Sunghee. International Song Festivals and Musicians’ Sense of the World—Inter-Asian Perspective and Eurasian Imagination in the Study of Korean Popular Song during the Cold War. Journal of Popular Narrative, 27(1), 187-225. doi: 10.18856/jpn.2021.27.1.005
Kim Sunghee. International Song Festivals and Musicians’ Sense of the World—Inter-Asian Perspective and Eurasian Imagination in the Study of Korean Popular Song during the Cold War. Journal of Popular Narrative. 2021; 27(1) 187-225. doi: 10.18856/jpn.2021.27.1.005
Kim Sunghee. International Song Festivals and Musicians’ Sense of the World—Inter-Asian Perspective and Eurasian Imagination in the Study of Korean Popular Song during the Cold War. 2021; 27(1), 187-225. Available from: doi:10.18856/jpn.2021.27.1.005
Kim Sunghee. "International Song Festivals and Musicians’ Sense of the World—Inter-Asian Perspective and Eurasian Imagination in the Study of Korean Popular Song during the Cold War" Journal of Popular Narrative 27, no.1 (2021) : 187-225.doi: 10.18856/jpn.2021.27.1.005
