Songs of Seoul
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anthropology
art songs
Author_Nicholas Harkness
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choral music
christianity
christians
church
concert halls
culture
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ethnographic study
ethnomusicology
european style classical voice
evangelical christian
faith
korean christians
linguistics
materiality of the body
music
musicians
opera
performance
personhood
politics
preachers
prosperity
religion
religious
schools of music
semiotics
seoul
singing
social transformation
societal norms
society
songs
sound
south korea
study of voice
superstition
vocal and singing
western opera
Product details
- ISBN 9780520276536
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Nov 2013
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
