Songs of Seoul - An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-520-27652-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 554 g

Songs of Seoul is an ethnographic study of voice in South Korea, where the performance of Western opera, art songs, and choral music is an overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian enterprise. Drawing on fieldwork in churches, concert halls, and schools of music, Harkness argues that the European-style classical voice has become a specifically Christian emblem of South Korean prosperity. By cultivating certain qualities of voice and suppressing others, Korean Christians strive to personally embody the social transformations promised by their religion: from superstition to enlightenment; from dictatorship to democracy; from sickness to health; from poverty to wealth; from dirtiness to cleanliness; from sadness to joy; from suffering to grace. Tackling the problematic of voice in anthropology and across a number of disciplines, Songs of Seoul develops an innovative semiotic approach to connecting the materiality of body and sound, the social life of speech and song, and the cultural voicing of perspective and personhood.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harkness, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kunstethnologie, Musikethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Kunst, Musik, Tanz
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Nichtwestliche Musik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Romanization



Introduction

     

PART ONE. THE QUALITIES OF VOICE

1. Transformations of Voice     

2. Voicing an Advanced Korea     

3. Cultivating the Christian Voice    

4. The Clean Voice       



PART TWO. THE SOCIALITY OF VOICE

5. Tuning the Voice 

6. The Voice of Homecoming     

7. Feeling the Voice      



Conclusion 

Notes          

References Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas Harkness is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University.