1970‒1980년대 노래운동에 대한 예비적 고찰

Abstract

During the post‒liberation period, people unleashed their eruptive emotions of emancipation by gathering around the streets and singing songs along with each other. Those songs that people of diverse backgrounds sang in public places began to be assembled into religious and university singing books from the mid‒1970s, and then released by labor, cultural and educational organizations from the mid‒1980s. In this study, a preliminary investigation is carried out to outline the characteristics of the formation of the song movement by examining the features of the songs and the song books printed up to 1983 before the movement spread in full scale. In the formative period of the song movement, there were few original Korean songs aspiring community life with the lack of songwriters; mostly, the songs were, mostly, foreign songs with translated lyrics, revived traditional folksongs, or those with melodies added to old and contemporary poems to create socially conscious songs. Later, a large volume of new songs were produced by Meari, a university music circle. From the very beginning, they made songs out of the desire to create good songs rather than with the song movement in mind. The songs were, for the most part, themed on the consciousness of the times rather than love, and collective issues rather than mundane matters concerning individuals. The yearning to sing songs different from what was available led to writing songs harboring a critical awareness of society and the life of the here and now. Self‒reflective songs help not only strengthen the inner self, but also build an emotional bond among people who have taken a similar path in life and form a sense of social solidarity out of similar lived experiences. Reflections mediated by singing lead the subject to think about what kind of life to seek as an individual in the given historical context and to follow up with actions to realize a better life through the criticism of the undemocratic political system.