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Sound of the Border - Music and Identity of Korean Minority in China (Paperback)
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Sound of the Border - Music and Identity of Korean Minority in China (Paperback)
Series: Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific
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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.
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