@article{ART003288435},
author={Lee Eun Jin},
title={Enlightenment and Propaganda: Focusing on the Relay Broadcast Program of Music Performances through Kyungseong Broadcasting Station during the Japanese Colonial Period},
journal={Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology},
year={2025},
volume={33},
number={2},
pages={55-99},
doi={10.34303/mscol.2025.33.2.002}
TY - JOUR
AU - Lee Eun Jin
TI - Enlightenment and Propaganda: Focusing on the Relay Broadcast Program of Music Performances through Kyungseong Broadcasting Station during the Japanese Colonial Period
JO - Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology
PY - 2025
VL - 33
IS - 2
PB - The Korean Society for Musicology
SP - 55
EP - 99
AB - This article aimed to analyze music concerts and performance programs broadcasted through Kyungseong Broadcasting Station in order to understand the impact of music performance broadcasts during the Japanese colonial period on contemporary music culture and public perception. For this purpose, I've classified the music performance broadcasts into four types; broadcasts of Japanese concerts, broadcasts of domestic concerts, broadcasts of stage plays, and exchange broadcasts. Then I've traced the characteristics and changes in performance broadcasts for each type.
The Japanese concert programs broadcast from the Kyungseong Broadcasting Station not only demonstrated an enlightening intention of the subjects of broadcast programming to provide Korean audiences with better classical music but also led to the internalization of Japanese cultural power by projecting the admiration for European music onto Japan, which had a more advanced musical culture than Korea. Meanwhile, domestic concert programs broadcast by Kyungseong Broadcasting also showed an intention to enlighten the Korean music scene by prominently featuring school concerts and competitions of students who would lead the next generation of music. In addition, the exchange broadcasts transmitted from Kyungseong Broadcasting Station can be divided into two types; international exchange broadcasts between Japan and Europe, and exchange broadcasts between Korea and Manchukuo. The exchange broadcasts between Japan and Europe reinforced admiration for the Japanese music scene by highlighting the image of Japan as the country that could musically interact with the admired Europe. On the other hand, the Korea-Manchukuo exchange broadcasts revealed Japan's intention to implement its Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Plan through the broadcast network.
In this way, the envy for European music and enlightenment intentions inherent in Kyungseong Broadcasting Station's music performance broadcasts were appropriated as part of propaganda and also contributed to sensually imprinting Japan's superiority on the Korean audience. This mechanism operated in the same way in the admiration for the American music scene of the post-liberation era and in Cold War propaganda, reinforcing hierarchical perceptions of music.
KW - Kyungseong Broadcasting Station; Relay Broadcast Programme; Envy for the European Music; Enlightenment Intention; Propaganda
DO - 10.34303/mscol.2025.33.2.002
ER -
Lee Eun Jin. (2025). Enlightenment and Propaganda: Focusing on the Relay Broadcast Program of Music Performances through Kyungseong Broadcasting Station during the Japanese Colonial Period. Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology, 33(2), 55-99.
Lee Eun Jin. 2025, "Enlightenment and Propaganda: Focusing on the Relay Broadcast Program of Music Performances through Kyungseong Broadcasting Station during the Japanese Colonial Period", Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology, vol.33, no.2 pp.55-99. Available from: doi:10.34303/mscol.2025.33.2.002
Lee Eun Jin "Enlightenment and Propaganda: Focusing on the Relay Broadcast Program of Music Performances through Kyungseong Broadcasting Station during the Japanese Colonial Period" Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology 33.2 pp.55-99 (2025) : 55.
Lee Eun Jin. Enlightenment and Propaganda: Focusing on the Relay Broadcast Program of Music Performances through Kyungseong Broadcasting Station during the Japanese Colonial Period. 2025; 33(2), 55-99. Available from: doi:10.34303/mscol.2025.33.2.002
Lee Eun Jin. "Enlightenment and Propaganda: Focusing on the Relay Broadcast Program of Music Performances through Kyungseong Broadcasting Station during the Japanese Colonial Period" Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology 33, no.2 (2025) : 55-99.doi: 10.34303/mscol.2025.33.2.002
Lee Eun Jin. Enlightenment and Propaganda: Focusing on the Relay Broadcast Program of Music Performances through Kyungseong Broadcasting Station during the Japanese Colonial Period. Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology, 33(2), 55-99. doi: 10.34303/mscol.2025.33.2.002
Lee Eun Jin. Enlightenment and Propaganda: Focusing on the Relay Broadcast Program of Music Performances through Kyungseong Broadcasting Station during the Japanese Colonial Period. Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology. 2025; 33(2) 55-99. doi: 10.34303/mscol.2025.33.2.002
Lee Eun Jin. Enlightenment and Propaganda: Focusing on the Relay Broadcast Program of Music Performances through Kyungseong Broadcasting Station during the Japanese Colonial Period. 2025; 33(2), 55-99. Available from: doi:10.34303/mscol.2025.33.2.002
Lee Eun Jin. "Enlightenment and Propaganda: Focusing on the Relay Broadcast Program of Music Performances through Kyungseong Broadcasting Station during the Japanese Colonial Period" Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology 33, no.2 (2025) : 55-99.doi: 10.34303/mscol.2025.33.2.002
