Sound of the Border : : Music and Identity of Korean Minority in China / / Sunhee Koo; ed. by Frederick Lau.
Using ethnographic data collected in China and South Korea between 2004 and 2011, author Sunhee Koo provides a comprehensive view of the music of Koreans in China (Chaoxianzu), from its time as manifestation of a displaced culture to its return home after more than a century of amalgamation and chan...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 20 b&w illustrations, 2 maps |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Romanization and Other Conventions -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. China’s Northeastern Border and Korean Migration to China -- Chapter 2. Korean Music in China: In the Past and in the Present Day -- Chapter 3. The Construction of Chaoxianzu Musical Identity -- Chapter 4. The Chaoxianzu Kayagŭm: Tradition Fused with Modernity -- Chapter 5. Musical Signs and Essentializing Chaoxianzuness -- Chapter 6. Chaoxianzu Vocal Music: Its Development and Dissemination -- Chapter 7. Returning to a Home Never Lived In? Chaoxianzu Musicians in South Korea -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index |
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Summary: | Using ethnographic data collected in China and South Korea between 2004 and 2011, author Sunhee Koo provides a comprehensive view of the music of Koreans in China (Chaoxianzu), from its time as manifestation of a displaced culture to its return home after more than a century of amalgamation and change in China. As the first English-language book on the music and identity of China’s Korean minority community, Sound of the Border investigates diasporic mutations of Korean culture, influenced by power dynamics in the host country and the constant renewal of relationships with the homeland. Between the 1860s and the 1940s, about two million Koreans migrated to China in search of economic opportunity and political stability. Settling primarily in the northeastern part of China bordering the Russian Far East, these Koreans had flexibility in crossing geopolitical and cultural boundaries throughout the first half of the twentieth century. In 1949, the majority of Koreans in China accepted their new citizenship designation as one of the PRC’s fifty-five official national minorities. The subsequent partition of the Korean peninsula in 1953 further politicized their ethnic identity, and for the next forty years they were only authorized to interact with North Korea. It was only in the early 1990s that Chaoxianzu were able to renew their relationship with South Korea, although they now faced new challenges due to an ethno-national prejudice as it focused on the nation’s industrial advancement as the most prominent measure of its social superiority. Sunhee Koo examines the unique construction of diasporic Korean music in China and uses it as a window to understanding the complexities and diversification of Korean identity, shaped by the ideological and political bifurcation and post–Cold War political resurgence that have affected Northeast Asia. The performances of Korean Chinese musicians—positioned between their adopted state and the two Koreas—embody a complex cultural intersection crisscrossing ideological, political, and social boundaries in historical and present-day Northeast Asia. Migrants enact their agency in creating a unique sound for Korean Chinese identity through navigating cultural resources accessed in their host and the two distinctive motherlands. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780824889562 9783110743357 9783110754001 9783110753776 9783110754124 9783110753899 9783110739688 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780824889562?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Sunhee Koo; ed. by Frederick Lau. |