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@article{ART002805347},
author={Seung Im Seo},
title={In Between Proficiency and Domesticity: The Emergence of Professional Musical Women in Colonial Korea and Representation of Women Musicians in Magazine Articles},
journal={Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology},
year={2021},
volume={29},
number={2},
pages={1-39},
doi={10.34303/mscol.2021.29.2.001}

TY - JOUR
AU - Seung Im Seo
TI - In Between Proficiency and Domesticity: The Emergence of Professional Musical Women in Colonial Korea and Representation of Women Musicians in Magazine Articles
JO - Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology
PY - 2021
VL - 29
IS - 2
PB - The Korean Society for Musicology
SP - 1
EP - 39
AB - Western music field in the early 20th-century colonial Korea witnessed the emergence of professional women musicians. Beginning with the music education for schoolgirls at Christian missionary school, Ewha and studying music abroad in Japan played a significant role in the birth of musical women as a career. In the case of Korea, women musicians first appeared in the public sphere in the early 1920s, a period under Japanese colonial rule. After that, approximately fifty women worked in the western music field as performers, music teachers, and a member of the musical groups before the Liberation in 1945. Although women musicians actively contributed to constructing the early western music culture in colonial Korean society, their emergence and participation have not been considered seriously under the view of androcentric nationalism which emphasizes the collective, social, and national way of music. To attempt to bring up the perspective of gendered history in colonial Korean music culture, this paper explores the published magazine articles written by several professional women musicians. Concurrently with the emergence of expert musical women, their writings and interviews began to be actively published in the form of public magazine articles since the middle of the 1920s. The magazine articles provide in detail the vivid life condition that colonial Korean women musicians experienced. This paper first examines the educational background for the birth of a new type of musical woman and illustrates the different kinds of musical careers they engaged in the public sphere: a concert, a school, a church, and associations. Later, it focuses on their magazine articles which take on the character of personal anecdotes to understand the life and experience of women musicians. By examining the articles, I attempt to analyze the gendered aspects of women musicians’ writings in common; new woman, subjectivity, and domesticity. Through this paper, I argue to reconsider the importance of gendered characteristics in not only constructing the early Korean musical culture but also emerging a new specific model of musical woman, which affects Korean society until now.
KW - Women and Music;Feminist Musicology;New Woman;Domesticity;Music Education in Japanese Colonial Period;Colonial Korea
DO - 10.34303/mscol.2021.29.2.001
ER -

Seung Im Seo. (2021). In Between Proficiency and Domesticity: The Emergence of Professional Musical Women in Colonial Korea and Representation of Women Musicians in Magazine Articles. Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology, 29(2), 1-39.

Seung Im Seo. 2021, "In Between Proficiency and Domesticity: The Emergence of Professional Musical Women in Colonial Korea and Representation of Women Musicians in Magazine Articles", Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology, vol.29, no.2 pp.1-39. Available from: doi:10.34303/mscol.2021.29.2.001

Seung Im Seo "In Between Proficiency and Domesticity: The Emergence of Professional Musical Women in Colonial Korea and Representation of Women Musicians in Magazine Articles" Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology 29.2 pp.1-39 (2021) : 1.

Seung Im Seo. In Between Proficiency and Domesticity: The Emergence of Professional Musical Women in Colonial Korea and Representation of Women Musicians in Magazine Articles. 2021; 29(2), 1-39. Available from: doi:10.34303/mscol.2021.29.2.001

Seung Im Seo. "In Between Proficiency and Domesticity: The Emergence of Professional Musical Women in Colonial Korea and Representation of Women Musicians in Magazine Articles" Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology 29, no.2 (2021) : 1-39.doi: 10.34303/mscol.2021.29.2.001

Seung Im Seo. In Between Proficiency and Domesticity: The Emergence of Professional Musical Women in Colonial Korea and Representation of Women Musicians in Magazine Articles. Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology, 29(2), 1-39. doi: 10.34303/mscol.2021.29.2.001

Seung Im Seo. In Between Proficiency and Domesticity: The Emergence of Professional Musical Women in Colonial Korea and Representation of Women Musicians in Magazine Articles. Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology. 2021; 29(2) 1-39. doi: 10.34303/mscol.2021.29.2.001

Seung Im Seo. In Between Proficiency and Domesticity: The Emergence of Professional Musical Women in Colonial Korea and Representation of Women Musicians in Magazine Articles. 2021; 29(2), 1-39. Available from: doi:10.34303/mscol.2021.29.2.001

Seung Im Seo. "In Between Proficiency and Domesticity: The Emergence of Professional Musical Women in Colonial Korea and Representation of Women Musicians in Magazine Articles" Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology 29, no.2 (2021) : 1-39.doi: 10.34303/mscol.2021.29.2.001