LTEA 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Kitsch, Free Verse, Orality
Lecture 8, 04.18.2018
● ‘eords hae ee aailale sie the earl 9s ut are fe ad usuall ourt usi
● I the late 9s, popular usi eoes tred
● Victor Records (JVC) and Columbia Japan open offices in Korea in 1927 and 1928 respectively
● Japanese people liked minyo
● Oralit appears as a a to sole poetrs readership prole ad poets fiaial proles
○ readings/recitals and popular music records
○ Popular media, does not need literacy
○ Pushes poets away from free verse as fixed verse is easier to sing to a musical theme
● Hallu efore Hallu: The Korea Boo i iperial Japa
● The Korea oo refers to a surge of iterest i all thigs Korea aog the Japaese puli
in the last years of the Japanese Empire (late 1920s - early 1940s)
● Cooitat ith a Mahuria oo
● Tied to the Empires policies of colonial expansion, assimilation and hierarchization
● But also to the epasio of ass ulture & the Japaese pulis taste for oloial kitsh ad
eoti thigs fro the oloies
● Koreans willingly participate for various reasons: making Korea better known to Japan and the
world, gaining visibility on the Japanese and international artistic scene
● Showcase Korea to the Japanese
● For korean writers and artists: opportunity to gain visibility in Japan, expand social network in
Japanese publishing world, foster understanding of Korea
● Often in collaboration with Koreans living in Japan
● But does not always work out as planned
● Growing tourism industry
● Imperial developmentalism and railway colonialism
● Complicates our understanding of the colonial experience:
○ Were korea artists ho agreed to represet Korea ad proote Korea ulture to the
Japanese public resisting or collaborating?
○ Did the Korea oo trul gie a oie to Koreas or erel cement existing
stereotypes of Korea?
○ Were Japaese artists, athropologists, historias s isio of Korea a for of
Orientalism or a valuable production of knowledgE?
○ Did poliies aiig at fosterig Korea idetit support or suert the Epires
assimilationist policies?
○ How to assess the persistence of similar policies in post-1945 North and South Korea?
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