Hearts of pine : songs in the lives of three Korean survivors of the Japanese "comfort women" / Joshua D. Pilzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pilzer, Joshua D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Songs, Korean--History and criticism.

Songs, Korean.

Women singers--Korea.

Women singers.

Music--Social aspects--Korea.

Music.

Comfort women--Japan--History.

Comfort women.

Comfort women--Korea--History.

History.

Music--Social aspects.

Korea.

Japan.

Physical Description:

xv, 191 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Summary:

In the wake of the Asis-Pacitic War, Korean survivors of the "Comfort women" system--those bound into sexual slavery for the Japanese military during the war--lived under great pressure not to speak about what had happened to them. Hearts of Pine brings us into the lives of three such survivors. Park Duri, Mun Pilgi, and Bae Chunhui. Over the course of eight years, author Joshua D. Pilzer worked with these now-elderly women, smoking with them, eating with them, singing and playing with them, trying to understand and document their worlds of song. During four decades of secrecy and the subsequent decades of the "comfort women" protest movement, singing served these women as a means of coping with and express their experiences, forging and sustaining identities and social relationships, and recording and covering their struggles and philosophies of life. Through these intimate portraits, Hearts of Pine illustrate the personal and social power of music vis-à-vis other expressive media, models a humanistic history of modern Korean music, and presents heretofore unrecorded histories of the "comfort women" system and postwar South Korean public culture written in women's song. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction 3

Beginnings 15

Pak Duri 31

Mun Pilgi 67

Bae Chunhui 105

Epilogue 141.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199759569

0199759561

9780199759576

019975957X

OCLC:

694509741