[KS] Jazz in Korea--Josephine Baker

[Antti Leppänen]

Hello all,

The Donga Ilbo article from 1940 on Josephine Baker's performance is
available also from the Naver News Library. This should be a direct link:
http://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?articleId=1940020800209205002&editNo=2&printCount=1&publishDate=1940-02-08&officeId=00020&pageNo=5&printNo=6635&publishType=00020
The soldier whose face is discernible in the picture is clearly European
(or white).

Best regards,
Antti Leppänen
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2011/11/21 Steven Capener <sotaebu at yahoo.com>

> Dear all,
>
> Yi Hyoseok published an essay in Jo Gwang (1936. 08) titled "Memories of
> that Time at the Port." He referes to the port as C port. He was teaching
> at Soongshil College in Pyeongyang at the time and mentions that it took
> them about an hour to drive to the port. There, he saw a performance by
> Josephine Baker at the theater. He says she was stopping by on a tour of
> Manchuria. He doesn't say that she was coming from Japan but that seems
> obvious.
>    After digging up the Dong-ah Ilbo article, I find it is from the 8th of
> February, 1940. It has a picture of Josephine Baker on  what looks like a
> stage holding up a cigarette with a big smile on her face. In the
> background very near are Korean troops of (what one must assume is) the
> Japanese Imperial Army. The large title reads "Josephine Baker  Encouraging
> the Troops on the Line" (전선위문의 죠세핀 베이커). The very short article says "The
> brown queen of the screen Josephine Baker on an entertainment tour for
> Joseon troops (조선 병사 위문의 길) last Christmas gave an outsatnding song and
> dance performance that was a huge hit (써-비스 만점이엇습니다). As can be seen in the
> picture she is handing out cigarettes to the troops."
>    I have a xerox copy of the article and the very bottom is cut off so I
> can't be sure if there is any more text but it doesn't look like it. In
> what I can see, it makes no mention of where this took place. I will go to
> the Dong-ah building to look up the origianl and follow up on this point.
>    I'm not sure what this does to theories of Josephine Baker's anti-Axis
> resistance activities, but I imagine it does something. Quite interesting
> stuff in any case.
>
> All the best,
>
> Steven Capener
>
>
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