한국 팝의 ‘건축학’을 위하여 －이동하는 서울의 음악적 장소들 1976~1992－

Abstract

The studies or discourses on popular music in Korea needs to be re-examined from the angle of urban geography, with the focus on Seoul in particular. In the 1980s, roughly from 1976 to 1992, the production and mediation of popular music in Korea was geographically mobile in the literal sense. As the old downtown area (Myeongdong, Jongno and Gwanghwamun) began to decline due to the development policy of national and local governments, different places emerged as the sites for sonic multiplicities. In this paper, several places in the 1980s Seoul are divided into four different nexuses. The first is Han Rive nexus which links Yeouido, Ichon and Yeongdong, which functioned as the center of the production and mediation of mainstream pop music. The other three nexuses provide alternatives to the mainstream pop：Sinchon-Daehakro nexus, which lies between two university towns, provided the network of ‘underground’ music through the reinvention of 1960-1970s local rock, folk, blues and jazz; Guro-Cheonggye-Seongsu nexus, which links industrial towns at the fringes of the metropolis, became the pillars for the practices of Minjunggayo (people‘s songs); Itaewon-Gangnam nexus, which links the north of Han River and its south via a bridge was the hotbeds for the emerging genres like ballad and dance music. The investigation surrounding these nexuses have implications, showing why the music scene in Korea these days is divided into mainstream music based in the Gangnam area and independent music based around the Hongik University area (next to Shinchon). It may also explain why other parts of Seoul, let alone the non-Seoul area, have been marginal as musical places. More in general, it can provide a theoretical foundation that a new kind of cultural history of modern Korea can be constructed in connection with the specific pattern of city planning that started in the 1970s and continues to this day.