TY - BOOK ID - 78072455 TI - Songs of Seoul PY - 2014 SN - 0520276531 0520957407 9780520957404 9781306068871 1306068878 9780520276529 0520276523 9780520276536 PB - Berkeley DB - UniCat KW - Church music KW - Music KW - Singing KW - Art music KW - Art music, Western KW - Classical music KW - Musical compositions KW - Musical works KW - Serious music KW - Western art music KW - Western music (Western countries) KW - Singing and voice culture KW - Vocal culture KW - Beatboxing KW - Throat singing KW - Pastoral music (Sacred) KW - Religious music KW - Sacred vocal music KW - Devotional exercises KW - Liturgics KW - Music in churches KW - Psalmody KW - Religious aspects. KW - Performance KW - History and criticism KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - #SBIB:39A5 KW - #SBIB:39A75 KW - Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning KW - Etnografie: Azië KW - anthropology. KW - art songs. KW - choral music. KW - christianity. KW - christians. KW - church. KW - concert halls. KW - culture. KW - ethnographic study. KW - ethnomusicology. KW - european style classical voice. KW - evangelical christian. KW - faith. KW - korean christians. KW - linguistics. KW - materiality of the body. KW - music. KW - musicians. KW - opera. KW - performance. KW - personhood. KW - politics. KW - preachers. KW - prosperity. KW - religion. KW - religious. KW - schools of music. KW - semiotics. KW - seoul. KW - singing. KW - social transformation. KW - societal norms. KW - society. KW - songs. KW - sound. KW - south korea. KW - study of voice. KW - superstition. KW - vocal and singing. KW - western opera. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78072455 AB - 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. ER -