From World War to Cold War: Music in US-Korea Relations, 1941-1960

Park, Hye-jung. From World War to Cold War: Music in US-Korea Relations, 1941-1960, The Ohio State University, Ann Arbor, 2019. ProQuest, https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy1.apus.edu/dissertations-theses/world-war-cold-music-us-korea-relations-1941-1960/docview/2267426706/se-2?accountid=8289.

From the “Description” the final sentence relates that the political goals of the United States/South Korea alliance shaped the experience of Western music that was disseminated in South Korea. Once again, music as propaganda, perhaps more subtle than Soviet-style music propaganda, is an underlying topic for this dissertation. The period covers from the end period of Japanese colonialism (1941-1945) in Korea through much of the cold war that South Korea and the United States had with North Korea (through 1960). Details of how music is used as propaganda are intertwined with the story of getting a people to adopt an attitude of support for great societal change.