러시아 이주 고려인의 노래에 담긴 서정성

Abstract

The history of migrating and re-migrating the Koreans(Корё сарам) to Far Eastern Russia from the early 1860s had accompanied them with multitudinous ordeals and pains forced by repressive policies on the minor nations of Russia. The multitudinous songs sung by the Koreans on conditions of their painful lives have been not only evidences of an aspect of histories of the whole Korean but also important musical and literary inheritances that had contained pains, sorrows, hopes, dreams, and intentions of the migrants. This study has purposed to illuminate implications and significances of the inward emotional world of the Korean migrants of Russia (as followed by the Soviet Union) by analyzing the lyricism in songs of them. In the pont of contents, the lyricism in songs of them had largely consisted of three elements as homeland, love, and nature. The most remarkable characteristic of songs about nostalgias for homelands of them had been the fact that many of the songs had belonged to the kind of ‘tearful parting songs.’ These had expressed not only their arden homesickness, weary migrant lives, and alien emotions, but also repeatedly pains and anxieties of their wandering lives alike as of the Diaspora. On the other hand, these had been accompanied with a ‘consciousness of paradise’ memorizing the homeland. In songs about their emotions of love, the lyricism had been expressed mostly as the sorrow of tearful partings and the longing for parted lovers and familiars. And one of the other aspects of the songs had been a characteristic of which a considerable number of them had described love affaires of virgins and bachelors with cheerful and pleasure words, or expressed plainly their amorous feelings. The natural lyricism in them had deeply related with agricultural labors of the Koreans in the kolkhoz as a base of their lives. It is to be said that their lives and labors had been merged in their recognition about nature. These sung by them had have a characteristic being accompanied with their inner emotions as joy, activity, fruitfulness, youth, etc. It is the fact that the pains as of the Diaspora had been intrinsic in the homesickness or in the afflictions of tearful parting in songs of the Koreans. But it must also be a remarkable fact that another one lyric stem had been formed by the positive lyric world expressing bright, cheerful, and healthful inwards of them.