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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>The upcoming online edition of <I>East Asian History</I> will include an article I wrote on the CMC and KPK show bands in which I discuss, though not at great length, the former collective’s inclusion of swing jazz on its tours to Japan in the 1930s. <BR>
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Regards,<BR>
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Roald<BR>
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Senior Lecturer<BR>
Dept. of Korean Studies / Dept. of Gender and Cultural Studies<BR>
School of Culture, History and Language<BR>
College of Asia & the Pacific<BR>
Baldessin Precinct Building #110, Room E4.37<BR>
The Australian National University<BR>
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AUSTRALIA<BR>
Tel: + 61 2 6125 3191<BR>
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Op 18/11/11 5:30 AM, Frank Hoffmann <<a href="hoffmann@koreaweb.ws">hoffmann@koreaweb.ws</a>> schreef:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#FF0000">>>> I have heard a few times that Josephine Baker <BR>
>>> also performed on the peninsula.<BR>
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> Josephine Baker toured JAPAN in April 1954, where <BR>
> she was doing some fundraising (through her <BR>
> performances there) for mixed-raced children <BR>
> ("occupation babies") for the Elizabeth Sanders <BR>
> Home. That institution had been founded in 1948 <BR>
> by Kiki Sawada who had been a close friend of <BR>
> Josephine Baker in Paris. In 1932 Kiki's husband <BR>
> had worked as a diplomat at the Japanese Embassy <BR>
> in Paris. Baker was also a good friend of Léonard <BR>
> Tsugouharu Foujita, by the way ... Fujita was at <BR>
> the time the most famous Japanese painter in <BR>
> Paris, and in the early 1940s the most famous war <BR>
> propaganda artist in Japan (scattered lives <BR>
> ....). Anyway, this just as a side note. Baker <BR>
> also adopted two mixed-race children during her <BR>
> stay, Akio Yamamoto and Teruya Kimura from that <BR>
> Sanders orphanage, the first of her "rainbow <BR>
> tribe" (her term). The first boy, Akio, so <BR>
> Josephine was told, was half Korean, born in July <BR>
> 1952. However, there are various stories about <BR>
> his birth mother, and some Japanese research <BR>
> indicates that his mother was actually a Japanese <BR>
> woman (who abandoned him at a tabacco shop, whose <BR>
> owner then brought him to the Sanders Home).<BR>
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> I do not think Josephine Baker ever stayed in <BR>
> Korea. For sure she did not before 1954. Did she <BR>
> later? When should that have been, and on what <BR>
> occasion? Not to long after her Japan tour she <BR>
> got into financial troubles and also was not <BR>
> anymore so active as a performer. I do not think <BR>
> there was any other, second visit to East Asia.<BR>
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> Best,<BR>
> Frank<BR>
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> Frank Hoffmann<BR>
> <a href="http://koreaweb.ws">http://koreaweb.ws</a><BR>
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