@article{ART001453666},
author={Kyungboon Lee},
title={The Reception of Western Music and its Political Meaning in the Colonial Korea},
journal={Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology},
year={2010},
volume={18},
number={1},
pages={155-185},
doi={10.34303/mscol.2010.18.1.006}
TY - JOUR
AU - Kyungboon Lee
TI - The Reception of Western Music and its Political Meaning in the Colonial Korea
JO - Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology
PY - 2010
VL - 18
IS - 1
PB - The Korean Society for Musicology
SP - 155
EP - 185
AB - This study focuses on the relationship between the reception of Western music in colonial Korea and modernity. In this essay I ask firstly how in such a short time, only within about 50 years, Western music could banish almost the Korean traditional music, which had been continued more than one thousand years.
In order to answer this question I conducted to find out which meanings Western music had at that time in the Korean society, and I assumed various functions of it, for example Western music as “enrich the country and strengthen the army(富國强兵)” ideology or as a symbol of civilization and modern life, in a word: Western music may have played a role as a place to imagine the modernity.
While the Japanese, who also imported Western music to their country, had reached a higher level of the concert culture than the Korean, Western music could contribute - a thesis of this essay - to realize “the Japanese and Korean as one body(內鮮一體)” ideology. It might have been easier for the Korean upper class or intellectuals and musicians, embracing fascination and envy, to identify themselves with the Japanese and their empire.
KW - colonial modernity;reception of Western music;the ideology of “the Japanese and Korean as one body”;the ideology of “enrich the country and strengthen the army”;music and politics
DO - 10.34303/mscol.2010.18.1.006
ER -
Kyungboon Lee. (2010). The Reception of Western Music and its Political Meaning in the Colonial Korea. Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology, 18(1), 155-185.
Kyungboon Lee. 2010, "The Reception of Western Music and its Political Meaning in the Colonial Korea", Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology, vol.18, no.1 pp.155-185. Available from: doi:10.34303/mscol.2010.18.1.006
Kyungboon Lee "The Reception of Western Music and its Political Meaning in the Colonial Korea" Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology 18.1 pp.155-185 (2010) : 155.
Kyungboon Lee. The Reception of Western Music and its Political Meaning in the Colonial Korea. 2010; 18(1), 155-185. Available from: doi:10.34303/mscol.2010.18.1.006
Kyungboon Lee. "The Reception of Western Music and its Political Meaning in the Colonial Korea" Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology 18, no.1 (2010) : 155-185.doi: 10.34303/mscol.2010.18.1.006
Kyungboon Lee. The Reception of Western Music and its Political Meaning in the Colonial Korea. Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology, 18(1), 155-185. doi: 10.34303/mscol.2010.18.1.006
Kyungboon Lee. The Reception of Western Music and its Political Meaning in the Colonial Korea. Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology. 2010; 18(1) 155-185. doi: 10.34303/mscol.2010.18.1.006
Kyungboon Lee. The Reception of Western Music and its Political Meaning in the Colonial Korea. 2010; 18(1), 155-185. Available from: doi:10.34303/mscol.2010.18.1.006
Kyungboon Lee. "The Reception of Western Music and its Political Meaning in the Colonial Korea" Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology 18, no.1 (2010) : 155-185.doi: 10.34303/mscol.2010.18.1.006
