![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve also made separate requests of my own to go through some of these very early Korean sound recordings, or 78 rpm discs in this collection. They all disbanded and went their separate ways. They had their own sets of musicians that they took with them. The war forced them to stay in the United States indefinitely. It was supposed to be a year and a half tour, but in 1950 when they were supposed to go back, the Korean war broke out. They were famous dancers in their own right and starting in 1948, they embarked on a US tour. One is a homemade film made at Jacob’s Pillow back in 1951 featuring two Korean dancers, a husband and wife team. Two items that I have seen so far are particularly intriguing that I don’t think exist anywhere else. ![]() They never circulated outside of this collection, so I was very excited to see these films. ![]() They were filmed by an ethnomusicologist in Korean during a field trip in 1966. Right now I’m working on some of the films held by the Library for the Performing Arts collections, mostly dance 16mm films. The Korean Film Archive hired me to write a report of what’s in the collection here, and after I write a report sharing what is important, they will arrange to acquire some digitized copies of these films. Tell us about what you're working on today. During his recent trip here, we spoke to Suk about the new projects he was working on, and about those ancient Korean recordings. Suk first came here in 2014 as an undergrad, and discovered nine unique recordings that were over 120 years old of traditional Korean music and other recorded sound-recordings that were known to have existed, but were never found until he made the discovery. Suk, who is currently working on a PhD at Yonsei University, studies Korean cultural history of the early 20th century, particularly how media of that time shaped our understanding of “Koreanness.” “What I mean by that,” he told us during a recent visit to the library, “is Korean culture, traditional culture, Korean national identity.” Researchers, like Jihoon Suk from Seoul, South Korea, make trips just to come to the library to look at, listen, and study materials in our collection. Not only does The Library for the Performing Arts have a wide variety of recordings that are more than 100 years old, but many are from cultures all over the world. ![]()
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