LTEA 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Symbolic Capital, Class Consciousness, Dialectic
Lecture 11, 04.25.2018
Mass Culture in North Korea
● Wites attitude t to efai thei aatie fo atioalis
● New economics of aesthetic value in the post-Liberation Koreas
● Possibility of an exchange between political capital and symbolic capital specific to the artistic
field:
○ Patioti edetials of atists dietl ifluee ho the ualit of thei ok is
perceived by the public
○ South Korea: confession narrative to explain collaboration, statement of devotion to the
nation, works on nation building
● North Korea: change of paradigm with socialist realism which pegs literary capital to political
capital
○ Socialist realism: fidelity to the party, class consciousness, people spirit
○ But not as simple as it seems
○ Depicted reality in the socialist system
○ Biased view of history
■ Desiig thigs as soialist
■ Realism
○ Your actions are dictated by your class and the other way around
○ Product of your environment
● Upon Liberation, central role given to culture and its mass consumption to spread socialist
ideology and values
● Populaizatio of ultue, ass ultue pojet, ultual oeet, assifiatio of ats ad
lettes, ass lie i ats ad ultue
● A protean, often informal, project aimed at increasing cultural consumption among the working
masses and led by a variety of actors
● Valued criticisms
● Traditionalism, many standards
● Husbands except wives to not only work but also act as a housewife
● Highlight definition of culture
● Mah 1946: Ceatio of the Noth Koea Atists League
● Aog the Leagues ojeties: a elighteet oeet toads the ultual, eatie ad
atisti deelopet of the popula asses
● Getting people to consume, understand and even produce cultural products
● Influences
○ Soviet mass cultures
○ KAPF popularization efforts and theory during the colonial period
○ Japanese Proletarian Movement
○ Grassroot elements
○ I the ajoit of egios [the oeet] as ot passiel stated ude the guidae
of some established institution or artist but came from a spontaneous passion from
iside”
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