@article{ART002005191},
author={CHOI YUJUN},
title={Risk Society and Anxious Music},
journal={Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology},
year={2015},
volume={23},
number={1},
pages={117-141},
doi={10.34303/mscol.2015.23.1.004}
TY - JOUR
AU - CHOI YUJUN
TI - Risk Society and Anxious Music
JO - Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology
PY - 2015
VL - 23
IS - 1
PB - The Korean Society for Musicology
SP - 117
EP - 141
AB - It is possible to say that Korea has become what Ulrich Beck called the ‘Risk society’ since long before. The essential symptom of risk society lies not just in accidents and disasters frequently happened and caused by human error, but in the accelerated individualization that is now rampant in this society. The emotional shock the Koreans had gotten from ‘Sewol-ferry disaster’ was also associated to the recognition of a risk society with an individualization setting. Anxiety is a dominant feeling in this risk society.
This paper analyses the emotional relations between music and risk society.
I will also suggest how anxiety of this risk society reveals in recent popular music scene through several examples. The new modernity(‘second modernity’), as Beck suggested, urges to find ‘the political’, which is not about a macro-politics but about a micro- and life politics. A path to escape from demands for unlimited competition and efficiency by capitalist markets lies in political practices of arts and music. We should change the irreversible individualizing process to a self-reflective one. The individual artistic practice made through aesthetic communication and empathic understanding causes not anxiety about survival but an aesthetic chaos, which would rather stop the reified system of this society and arouse a forgotten emotional community.
KW - risk society;second modernity;individualization;the political;idol group;Duriban
DO - 10.34303/mscol.2015.23.1.004
ER -
CHOI YUJUN. (2015). Risk Society and Anxious Music. Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology, 23(1), 117-141.
CHOI YUJUN. 2015, "Risk Society and Anxious Music", Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology, vol.23, no.1 pp.117-141. Available from: doi:10.34303/mscol.2015.23.1.004
CHOI YUJUN "Risk Society and Anxious Music" Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology 23.1 pp.117-141 (2015) : 117.
CHOI YUJUN. Risk Society and Anxious Music. 2015; 23(1), 117-141. Available from: doi:10.34303/mscol.2015.23.1.004
CHOI YUJUN. "Risk Society and Anxious Music" Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology 23, no.1 (2015) : 117-141.doi: 10.34303/mscol.2015.23.1.004
CHOI YUJUN. Risk Society and Anxious Music. Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology, 23(1), 117-141. doi: 10.34303/mscol.2015.23.1.004
CHOI YUJUN. Risk Society and Anxious Music. Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology. 2015; 23(1) 117-141. doi: 10.34303/mscol.2015.23.1.004
CHOI YUJUN. Risk Society and Anxious Music. 2015; 23(1), 117-141. Available from: doi:10.34303/mscol.2015.23.1.004
CHOI YUJUN. "Risk Society and Anxious Music" Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology 23, no.1 (2015) : 117-141.doi: 10.34303/mscol.2015.23.1.004
