1930년대 민요의 정치적 활용과 상업화 과정 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to reveal the political use of folk songs in the 1930s and the process of commercialization through the "Recruitment of Local Song Phenomenon" conducted by the Chosun Ilbo(朝鮮日報) in 1935. In 1935, the Chosun Ilbo collaborated with Okeh Record, a record company, to recruit local song phenomena under the title of "Recruitment of Choseon's Top 10 City Hymn". Another purpose seems to have been hidden in the recruitment of phenomena, which put forward the cultivation of local love for the purpose of the public offering. Before the recruitment of local song phenomena in the Chosun Ilbo, local songs of Joseon were first created by the Japanese twice, which was part of Japan's internalism of including Joseon as Japan's interior. Therefore, the recruitment of local song phenomena in the Chosun Ilbo contained not only the pure purpose of evoking local love in Koreans but also the political intention of confronting the creation of local songs by the Japanese. On the other hand, the recruitment of the Chosun Ilbo's status quo promoted the commercial success of the Oke Records company, which released the album with the popular new folk songs at the time. As such, the recruitment of local song phenomena in the Chosun Ilbo was an event in which the political meaning to counter Japanese local songs and the commercial purpose of the record label through new folk songs were complicated.