dc.contributor.author |
Koo, Sun |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2019-10-08T09:12:40Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2019-05 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Korean Studies 43:169-195 May 2019 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1529-1529 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/48498 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Of the approximately eight hundred thousand Koreans currently residing in Japan, the majority are descendants of people displaced to Japan as economic migrants, military servicemen, and World War II laborers during the Japanese colonization of Korea (1910–1945). With the partitioning of the Korean peninsula, diasporic Koreans in Japan were split into two camps supporting the competing regimes in the North and South. Although almost 97% of them originated from southern Korean provinces, the majority took the North Korean side, and subsequently associated themselves with pro-North Korean organizations including economic and educational institutions. This paper examines the complexity of identity among Koreans in Japan, especially those who associate themselves with North Korean national music. Focusing on the music and musicians of Tokyo-based North Korean performance troupe Ku˘mgangsan Kagu˘ktan, I demonstrate how these diasporic Korean musicians in Japan navigate their identity by internalizing and negotiating the cultural divisions between North and South Korea, through imagining and relating themselves to a premodern ethnic Koreanness. The performance of North Korean music in Japan is not the mere manifestation of one’s ideological, cultural, or political affiliation. Rather, it is the expression of flexible citizenship and diasporic cultural agency rooted in creative desires and practical considerations while transcending social and political boundaries as necessary. |
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dc.publisher |
University of Hawaii Press |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Korean Studies |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://uhpjournals.wordpress.com/about/author-rights-generic-publication-agreement/ |
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dc.title |
Zainichi Korean Identity and Performing North Korean Music in Japan |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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pubs.begin-page |
169 |
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pubs.volume |
43 |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: The author |
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pubs.author-url |
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/723619 |
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pubs.end-page |
195 |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Article |
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pubs.elements-id |
776268 |
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pubs.org-id |
Arts |
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pubs.org-id |
Social Sciences |
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pubs.org-id |
Anthropology |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2019-07-09 |
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