TY - GEN AU - Maliangkay,Roald TI - Broken Voices : Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea’s Central Folksong Traditions SN - hawaii/9780824866655.001.0001 PY - 2017///1101 CY - Honolulu PB - University of Hawai'i Press KW - Music KW - postcolonialism KW - folksong KW - heritage KW - intangible KW - preservation KW - cultural cringe KW - Korea KW - kugak KW - legislation KW - Japa KW - Korean language KW - Seoul KW - Shamanism N1 - Open Access N2 - 'Broken Voices' is the first English-language book on Korea’s rich folksong heritage, and the first major study of the effects of Japanese colonialism on the intangible heritage of its former colony. In 2009, many Koreans reacted with dismay when China officially recognized the folksong 'Arirang', commonly regarded as the national folksong in North and South Korea, as part of its national intangible cultural heritage. They were vindicated when versions from both sides of the DMZ were included in UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity a few years later. At least on a national level, folksongs thus carry significant political importance. Maliangkay describes how an elaborate system of heritage management was first established in modern Korea and raises an important issue of cultural preservation—traditions that fail to attract practitioners and audiences are unsustainable, so compromises may be unwelcome but imperative UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30219/1/648359.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30219/1/648359.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30219/1/648359.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27623 ER -