[KS] Sonic Narratives of the Korean Division Interdisciplinary Workshop

[Peter Moody]

Dear KS list members,

Please note the following in-person event at Korea University in Seoul,
South Korea.

Best,

Peter Moody


*Sonic Narratives of the Korean Division, Fresh Insights from History,
Literature, Anthropology, and Music*

*Date: *Saturday December 9th

*Location: *Korea University Research Institute of Korean Studies

고려대학교 민족문화연구원 (room TBD)

The year 2023 marks the 70th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice, which
ended major hostilities yet left the Korean peninsula in a condition of
disintegration and precarity that has persisted to present day. From 1945
until that point, two opposing power centers had formed in the peninsula's
northern and southern halves because of the haphazard planning of Korea’s
state of affairs following liberation from Japanese colonization, as well
as the onset of the Cold War conflict between the Soviet Union and the
United States. Although music is typically used to unify and anchor a
community when people establish or regain nationhood, initiatives to create
music that would sing for the entire Korean peninsula were attempted but
failed as musicians clashed with state authorities and were embroiled in
ideologically driven conflicts with one another. Nonetheless, the memories
of individuals who experienced the tragedies and dislocation accompanying
the Korean division have been preserved and carried down via works of sonic
creation, particularly music, so that people in today's world may grasp and
identify with the complexities of what it was like to live during that
time.

This workshop aims to foster dialogue across borders and disciplinary
boundaries to further the inquiry of the sonic culture that accompanied
Korea’s drift toward division. It is hoped the participants and audience
will be able to discover more fully what the outpouring of emotion of
individual expression of musicians sounded like throughout this tragic and
eventful period. Following the presentations and discussions, there will be
a special music performance of works composed during Korea's early
post-liberation period.

*Date: *Saturday December 9th

*Location: *Korea University Research Institute of Korean Studies 고려대학교
민족문화연구원 (room TBD)

*10:00-10:05- Welcome*

*10:05-11:00- Keynote Address*

*Dr. Dafna Zur *(Stanford University) “How Music Matters: *Tongyo *in Times
of Division”

*11:00-11:10- Break*

*11:10-1:00- Panel 1:  Divided Voices of Cold War Korea*

*Dr. John DiMoia*  (Seoul National University) "Anticipating the Unknown:
USAMGIK, CATS (Civil Affairs Training Schools), and Crafting Knowledge of
Korea, 1942-1948"

*Dr. Seong Nae Kim* (Sogang University) "Lamenting Words and Songs in the
Memorialization of the Cheju April 3 Incident"

*Dr. Yoon Joo Hwang* (University of Central Florida) “Music and Musicians
of Cold War Korea: Global Ambitions, Limited Opportunities”

*Dr. Jong-hwan Do* (Poet) "A Pioneer of Korean Children's Movements:
Composer Chung Soonchul"

*Discussant:** Dr. Heonik Kwon* (Cambridge University)

1:00-2:00 lunch break

*2:00-3:30- Panel 2: Singing and Reading Korea's Divergence*

*Dr. Peter Moody* (Korea University) "Tracing the Paths of Korean Composers
Who Moved North”

*Dr. Boduerae Kwon* (Korea University) "People's Happiness as Propaganda:
The Two Koreas' Competition over Life Values in the 1950s."

*Dr. Keith Howard *(SOAS, University of London) "Glimpsing Korean
Traditional Music in Two Films from Two Koreas: Yangsando (1955) and
Moranbong, Chronique coréene (1959)"

*Discussant*: *Dr. Pil Ho Kim* (Ohio State University)

*4:00-5:30- Special Sonic Culture Panel & Lecture Recital*

*SHORT SPEECH & INTRO*: Sewon Kim & Yoon Joo Hwang

 Sewon Kim “My Father, Kim Sunnam”

"Lullaby for Bassoon and Piano" (1948*) *Kim Sunnam, Text & Composer

Yoon Joo Hwang (University of Central Florida), Bassoon

Hojun Ryu (Korea University), Piano

Sewon Kim, Narrator

"The Korean War, Memory and Nostalgia for Bassoon and Piano" (2023*)
  *SiHyun
Uhm (UCLA), composer

Yoon Joo Hwang, (University of Central Florida), Bassoon

Jae Hoon Kim (University of Michigan), Media Artist & Creative Director

"Half Moon" (반달)*, * Yun Geukyoung, composer

           Jae-Hong Park and Ki-Moon Sung (Tongyo Duo),

"Autumn Night" (가을밤), composed by Park Taejoon

Jae-Hong Park and Ki-Moon Sung (Tongyo Duo)
*RESERVATIONS ARE REQUESTED: *please fill out the form
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecpTz5Ccphz8eJbkO1y40DyInPDbZ4kO_OTf88ar9WZNROLQ/viewform

-- 
Peter Moody
PhD Columbia University
Visiting Research Professor at Korea University
Fulbright Grantee 2019-2020

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