TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maliangkay, Roald
AB  - 'Broken Voices' is the first English-language book on Korea’s rich folksong heritage, and the first major study of the effects of Japanese colonialism on the intangible heritage of its former colony. In 2009, many Koreans reacted with dismay when China officially recognized the folksong 'Arirang', commonly regarded as the national folksong in North and South Korea, as part of its national intangible cultural heritage. They were vindicated when versions from both sides of the DMZ were included in UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity a few years later. At least on a national level, folksongs thus carry significant political importance. Maliangkay describes how an elaborate system of heritage management was first established in modern Korea and raises an important issue of cultural preservation—traditions that fail to attract practitioners and audiences are unsustainable, so compromises may be unwelcome but imperative.
DO  - 10.21313/hawaii/9780824866655.001.0001
ID  - OAPEN ID: 648359
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1007823156
KW  - Music
KW  - Music
KW  - postcolonialism
KW  - folksong
KW  - heritage
KW  - intangible
KW  - preservation
KW  - cultural cringe
KW  - Korea
KW  - kugak
KW  - legislation
KW  - Japa
KW  - Korean language
KW  - Seoul
KW  - Shamanism
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/38833e74-98cf-4569-b4ed-f1b3b2401a4c/648359.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30219
PB  - University of Hawai'i Press
PP  - Honolulu
PY  - 2017-11-01
SN  - 9780824878337;9780824878344
TI  - Broken Voices : Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea’s Central Folksong Traditions
ER  - 
