[KS] Jazz in Korea

[Roald Maliangkay]

The upcoming online edition of East Asian History will include an article I
wrote on the CMC and KPK show bands in which I discuss, though not at great
length, the former collective¹s inclusion of swing jazz on its tours to
Japan in the 1930s.

Regards,

Roald


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>>> 
Dr. Roald H. Maliangkay
Senior Lecturer
Dept. of Korean Studies / Dept. of Gender and Cultural Studies
School of Culture, History and Language
College of Asia & the Pacific
Baldessin Precinct Building #110, Room E4.37
The Australian National University
Acton, Canberra ACT 0200,
AUSTRALIA
Tel: + 61 2 6125 3191
Fax: +61 2 6125 0745



Op 18/11/11 5:30 AM, Frank Hoffmann <hoffmann at koreaweb.ws> schreef:

>>>  I have heard a few times that Josephine Baker
>>> also performed on the peninsula.
> 
> 
> Josephine Baker toured JAPAN in April 1954, where
> she was doing some fundraising (through her
> performances there) for mixed-raced children
> ("occupation babies") for the Elizabeth Sanders
> Home. That institution had been founded in 1948
> by Kiki Sawada who had been a close friend of
> Josephine Baker in Paris. In 1932 Kiki's husband
> had worked as a diplomat at the Japanese Embassy
> in Paris. Baker was also a good friend of Léonard
> Tsugouharu Foujita, by the way ... Fujita was at
> the time the most famous Japanese painter in
> Paris, and in the early 1940s the most famous war
> propaganda artist in Japan (scattered lives
> ....). Anyway, this just as a side note. Baker
> also adopted two mixed-race children during her
> stay, Akio Yamamoto and Teruya Kimura from that
> Sanders orphanage, the first of her "rainbow
> tribe" (her term). The first boy, Akio, so
> Josephine was told, was half Korean, born in July
> 1952. However, there are various stories about
> his birth mother, and some Japanese research
> indicates that his mother was actually a Japanese
> woman (who abandoned him at a tabacco shop, whose
> owner then brought him to the Sanders Home).
> 
> I do not think Josephine Baker ever stayed in
> Korea. For sure she did not before 1954. Did she
> later? When should that have been, and on what
> occasion? Not to long after her Japan tour she
> got into financial troubles and also was not
> anymore so active as a performer. I do not think
> there was any other, second visit to East Asia.
> 
> Best,
> Frank
> 
> --
> --------------------------------------
> Frank Hoffmann
> http://koreaweb.ws
> 

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