Quietude : a musical anthropology of "Korea's Hiroshima" /
What can be learned from musically encountering others beyond music? Quietude is an attempt to answer this question, an holistic ethnography of the expressive lives of Korean first and second-generation victims of the atomic bombing of Japan, focused on the everyday arts of living that they employ t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2023].
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| Summary: | What can be learned from musically encountering others beyond music? Quietude is an attempt to answer this question, an holistic ethnography of the expressive lives of Korean first and second-generation victims of the atomic bombing of Japan, focused on the everyday arts of living that they employ to make life possible and worthwhile. The book documents the practically unknown history of Korean experiences of the atomic bombs and their aftermath, focused on the large community of victims, former residents of Hiroshima and their children-living in Hapcheon, South Korea. It considers victims' uses of voice, speech, song and movement in the struggle for national and global recognition, in the ongoing work of negotiating the traumatic past, and in the effort to consolidate and maintain selves and relationships in the present. It attempts to explain the multifaceted atmosphere of quiet that predominates in "Korea's Hiroshima" by focusing on the poetics of endurance, refusal and self-effacement in the face of discrimination, the atomic experience and its politicization. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 191 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197615096 0197615090 9780197615089 0197615082 |