Abstract
Min places the beginning of modern Korean song during the Korean empire (1897–1910), when a national anthem and patriotic songs were composed. After the Japanese annexation in 1910, student songs, classroom songs and songs of anti-Japanese resistance proliferated. Western-style songs setting texts by contemporary Korean poets in the 1920s to 1930s came to form the canon of Korean art song. Min draws attention to the role of music publishing, whereby anthologies of classroom songs, children’s songs, new folk songs and art songs appeared from the late 1920s. He points to “lost songs” that could no longer be sung after Liberation in 1945, including songs by composers who defected to North Korea after 1948, and songs composed with Japanese texts that had to be suppressed or substituted with Korean lyrics.
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