Songs of Seoul

An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea

Nicholas Harkness (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2013
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-27653-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Nicholas Harkness is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.3.2014
Zusatzinfo	11 b-w photographs
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-27653-1 / 0520276531
ISBN-13	978-0-520-27653-6 / 9780520276536
Zustand	Neuware