{"id":15952,"date":"2022-11-08T00:15:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/?p=15952"},"modified":"2022-11-08T00:15:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:15:43","slug":"from-liberation-space-to-post-liberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/2022\/11\/08\/from-liberation-space-to-post-liberation\/","title":{"rendered":"From Liberation Space to Post-Liberation: The Lives and Activities of Two Early North Korean Musicians (1945-1953)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/2022\/11\/08\/from-liberation-space-to-post-liberation\/20221108_poster_sw\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15953\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15953 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221108_poster_sw.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1191\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221108_poster_sw.png 1191w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221108_poster_sw-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221108_poster_sw-768x543.png 768w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221108_poster_sw-1024x724.png 1024w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221108_poster_sw-400x283.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 99vw, (max-width: 900px) 98vw, 876px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Date: <\/strong>November 8th, Tuesday, 2022 12:00 &#8211; 13:00<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location: <\/strong>Room 406, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Speaker: Peter G. Moody (SNUAC)<\/p>\n<p>Since the early-1980s, historians and literary scholars have engaged with the concept of \u201cliberation space\u201d to explore the active contestation over what \u201cliberation\u201d actually meant in the context of the\u00a0US and Soviet military occupations following the August 15th 1945 Japanese surrender. While the liberation space discourse has served to disrupt state-centric narratives and highlight the spontaneous\u00a0organizational and artistic activity that did take place, it has only gone so far in accounting for the constraints that cultural figures, particularly musicians, were increasingly up against as the second\u00a0half the 1940s proceeded.<\/p>\n<p>This presentation will put forward a notion of \u201cpost-liberation\u201d as a way of identifying the 1947 to 1953 period, not simply as a temporal category (as North Korean official sources do), but also as an\u00a0analytical concept to sharpen our understanding of the cultural production accompanying the aftermath of the Japanese surrender. Just as \u201cpost-colonial\u201d has described structures and forms of\u00a0oppression that persist following the dismantling of a prior occupying regime, post-liberation can be said to refer to the continued creative endeavors artists pursued even as their de jure liberated status\u00a0became compromised.<\/p>\n<p>Applying this post-liberation lens to the field of music, this presentation will trace the compositions\u00a0and writings of two North Korean musicians: Kim Sun-nam and An Ki-y\u014fng, both of whom\u00a0migrated from the South to the North following the Japanese surrender despite having holding prominent positions in music-related institutions in Seoul initially. Their obstacles to liberation\u00a0included being subject to jail time due to a prohibition of leftist political activity in the South and having their self-expression curbed under Soviet-inspired organizational activity models\u00a0implemented in the North.<\/p>\n<p>While the two men\u2019s experiences diverged from each other in certain ways, both displayed an analogous form of \u201csubservient nationalism\u201d as they leveraged a subordinate position vis-\u00e0-vis a\u00a0greater power, at least temporarily, as a means of affirming and strengthening their identities as Koreans while also pursuing their individual aims. These uneven relationships applied to their\u00a0encounters with Japanese, American, and Soviet states and people, eventually giving way to the authority of the all-encompassing presence of the Korean Workers\u2019 Party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter G. Moody<\/strong>\u00a0is a Visiting Scholar at the Seoul National University Asia Center (SNUAC) from\u00a0Columbia University status and will be defending his dissertation this semester. While researching\u00a0his dissertation, Peter has served in various capacities such as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University, an Adjunct Professor at the University of\u00a0Maryland at Baltimore County, and a research fellow with the US Fulbright Program. His research focuses on the historical development of North Korean culture and ideology, inter-Korean relations,\u00a0and North Korea\u2019s music diplomacy in East Asia. Peter\u2019s academic work on North Korea has been<br \/>\nfeatured in various peer-reviewed journals including\u00a0<em>Korean Studies, Korea Journal, Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>North Korean Review<\/em>. He is currently in the early stages of a\u00a0book manuscript entitled\u00a0<em>Mobilizing Musicians and the Making of North Korea<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: November 8th, Tuesday, 2022 12:00 &#8211; 13:00 Location: Room 406, SNUAC (Bldg. 101) Speaker: Peter G. Moody (SNUAC) Since the early-1980s, historians and literary scholars have engaged with the concept of \u201cliberation space\u201d to explore the active contestation over what \u201cliberation\u201d actually meant in the context of the\u00a0US and Soviet military occupations following the August 15th 1945 Japanese surrender. While the liberation space discourse has served to disrupt state-centric narratives and highlight the spontaneous\u00a0organizational and artistic activity that did take place, it has only gone so far in accounting for the constraints that cultural figures, particularly musicians, were increasingly up against as the second\u00a0half the 1940s proceeded. This presentation will put forward a notion of \u201cpost-liberation\u201d as a way of identifying the 1947 to 1953 period, not simply as a temporal category (as North Korean official sources do), but&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15955,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15952\/revisions\/15955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}