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Sound of the Border - Music and Identity of Korean Minority in China (Hardcover)
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Sound of the Border - Music and Identity of Korean Minority in China (Hardcover)
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, Sound of the Border 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, this study 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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