• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.104-108
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• 2016

African-American music heavily influences a variety of musical genres, including folk music, jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, and funk music. The music derived from traditional African music with its unique syncopated rhythm using a five-note pentatonic scale, and has developed through significant influences from gospel music. African-American music has also evolved through historical social movements, such as eliminating the racial discrimination, and has been influenced by the personalities of different cities in the United States. Modern music features fusion with elements of Western music. One of the most influential and respected artists of the 20th century was Stevie Wonder, who was known as "Father of African-American music." He was an accomplished artist, winning numerous awards despite being disabled. He has become one of the most famous and respected artists worldwide. This study of Stevie Wonder's life, music, and spiritual strength, aims to highlight his significant achievements and contributions to pop music. This is a study based on an analysis of the work of Stevie Wonder and describes how elements of African-American music influences current Korean pop music and musicians.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.455-460
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• 2017

In popular music, soul music is becoming an evaluation criteria in Korea. Blues, a songer music that was singing and lamenting Filed Holler and their suffering in a vast land of black blood and sweat, which became the mother of music to understand our enthusiastic soul music. And the only spiritual haven, church music and important musicians. Especially in the 1960s Americans social background is the most important factor to understand the soul music of birth time. Our country, which has undergone tremendous colonial rule amid numerous foreign invasions, is naturally ashamed of its aging skies. For Black-Americans soul music is an expression and anger expression anger. However, many musicians, who are flooded with floods in our country, are destined to experience the essence of life. 'Soul music' the noble choice of choice music, is known to be the ultimate reminder of the misery of the eternal disaster. As soul music has become a powerful it is understandable that it has become an exaggeration.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.439-445
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• 2017

Summary. Most of American pop music, which are dominating the hegemony of the global pop music market, have been derived from the culture of African Americans, most of whom were slaves of European immigrants. The music of black slaves must be the one of the greatest undisputed achievements that have most influenced the American history. Indeed, All of the mainstream pop music works around the world, including those in America, are the descendants of the black music with the gene of the black people. We can say, therefore, the music born through the Afro-American culture has become the music that every person around the world enjoys in the present. Accordingly, K-Pop music culture, centered in idol group, is also based on the black music. This fact suggests that the K-Pop culture can be spread into people in different customs or traditions with little resistance. The success factor of Motown, at the very center of the black music, which integrated the whole global music, is not only their incredibly outstanding music works, but also the self-consciousness the musicians have that they are strongly reluctant to settle down to present reality. This shall lead to the necessity of self-reflection for the Korean music market, which are obsessed with present popularity and only taking advantage of teenager market, and for those engaged in music business in Korea, who are lack of the artistic value and the consciousness as artist.

• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.331-344
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to explore sorts and roles of Afro-American music genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, and swing which were shown in post-structural Afro-American literary works: Toni Morrison's novel Jazz, Alice Walker's novel The Color Purple, and August Wilson's play The Piano Lesson. It has been phenomenal for several important Afro-American writers to create their works in which they invite traditional Afro-American music genres. This has made significant effects to depict a wide range of episodes in their works, which are historically and culturally associated with such music genres. This paper analyzes varied ways in which the writers combine these two artistic fields, which are all Afro-American, and express their authenticity and identity as being blackness.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2010.05b
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• pp.673-676
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• 2010

빅스 바이더벡이라는 트럼펫 연주자는 일반적으로 백인재즈라는 새로운 길을 개척한 인물로 거론된다. 그러나 이 연구에서는 일반론적인 관점에서 벗어나 1920년대 초 흑인 재즈라는 테두리 안에서의 빅스 바이더벡의 독창성이 20세기 초 영문학에서의 새로운 사조였던 ‘의식의 흐름' 이라는 표현법과 그 유사성이 깊은 것으로 본다. 음악과 문학과의 그 흐름상의 유사성을 직접적으로 영향을 서로 어떻게 받았는지를 증명할 수 는 없지만, 표현방법 면에서 볼 때 두 다른 예술 분야에서의 유사성은 충분히 흥미로운 것이다. 특히 미국의 한 재즈연주자의 연주가 같은 시대 영국의 문학에서의 새로운 시도와 그 흐름을 같이 한다면, 현재 우리에게도 다른 분야의 흐름과 음악의 흐름상 연관성에 대한 연구도 보다 폭넓게 이루어 져야 할 것이다.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.99-104
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• 2023

This study aims to 1) summarize the definitions the definitions of afrofuturism through a theoretical review 2) through exploratory empirical research, and 3) recover the concept of reversal in relation to the turning point of future technological development. To this end, first, the theoretical background and conceptual discussion of Afrofuturism were examined, and works in the field of SF literature, music, and art were analyzed. Octavia Butler's science fiction confirms the idea that black people must liberate themselves from othered oppression by bringing the past of slavery to the forefront of the world. Janelle Monae's music presents a liberated utopia where technology allows minorities to connect with the outside world. In addition, Jean-Michel Basquiat's artwork reimagines a black identity that has been excluded and seeks to expand communal discussions. In light of their work, this paper proposes that the values inherent in African humanism can provide clues to the co-evolution that is generated by relating to the Other in the face of exponentially advancing technology.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.241-246
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• 2021

Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a group of men influenced by South African traditional Zulu a cappella and American black music. The Jubilee Choir of the United States came to South Africa in the 1870s and influenced South African music while performing. Ladysmith Black Mambazo's music can be the result of the combination of the indigenous Zulu a cappella and the American Jubilee music style. This group participated in Paul Simon's album "Graceland" and became world famous. The album won a Grammy Award for sales of millions of copies. After that, they released their own albums and won 5 times Grammy Awards (nominated 15 times) They inherited and developed Zulu music under the philosophy of "preserving musical heritage". As a samely non-Western country, with hope their spirit, inheriting old one and innovating new one, gives positive inspiration for Korean music, I investigated how their music, 'Black Is Beautiful', 'Homeless' are influenced by the western music and inherited their own traditional music in it.

• Cross-Cultural Studies
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• v.44
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• pp.7-28
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• 2016

This study examines the sociocultural background of negritude by delving into Caseríos, Reggaeton, and $Trigue{\tilde{n}}os$, which are interrelated with the racism deeply embedded in Puerto Rican society. These terms have also been discussed in relation to the ideological discourse of racial democracy, which has caused Puerto Rican people to be blind to silenced inequality and hegemonic racial policies. Caseríos, housing projects for the poor urban class, are targeted by the state - sponsored project 'Mano Dura'. Due to the policing, control and surveillance of this anticrime project, Caseríos became perceived even more as residential communities of violence, poverty, and insecurity generally connected to the stigmatization of blackness. Reggaeton emerged as a mega hit genre of transnational Puerto Rican music in the 2000s, which in turn, drew attention to both the afrodiaspora in New York and the urban musical power in the Island. This musical genre serves to highlight the meaningfulness of black heritage in the national cultural identity of Puerto Rico. $Trigue{\tilde{n}}idad$ has recently become a common racial cultural term that embraces a broader racial paradigm of mestizaje. This term can function as an alternative concept of blackness, but it has not yet been transformed into enough cultural politics to resist ongoing racial democracy. The three terms intrinsically address both the uprooted racism and potential methods of challenging it. This paper argues the necessity of stronger and more responsive cultural politics to defy the pervasiveness and invisibility of racial discrimination in Puerto Rico.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.257-258
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 카포에라를 움직임의 기반으로 하는 무용단을 선정하여 그들의 최근 작품을 중심으로 작품 경향을 문헌연구 하였다. 연구 대상이 된 무용단은 러셀 말리펀트(Russell Maliphant), 콰살 댄스 컴퍼니(Quasar Cia. de Dança), 구루포 코르포(Grupo corpo), 댄스 브라질(DanceBrazil)으로 제한하였다. 연구결과 카포에라(Capoeira)는 역동성과 리듬이 극대화된 소용돌이 치는 듯한 새로운 무용의 움직임 언어를 만들어 냈다. 신체움직임을 이용하여 공간, 이미지, 음악과 융화되는 작품 경향을 나타냈다. 사랑, 종교, 역사, 신화를 무대 위에서 움직임으로 풀어낼 수 있는 새로운 움직임 양식을 개발하여 흑인문화가 순수무용분야에 완벽하게 흡수되는 결과를 낫게 되었다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.8
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• pp.3366-3370
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• 2012

Bix Beiderbecke is a cornet player known as the first white jazz musician with white sound. In this study, we will see the similarity between his originality in black jazz field and 'Stream of consciousness' in 20th century's english literature. It is hard to verify how these two arts affect each other, and it is also very interesting to see the resemblance between jazz and the literature in their forms of expression. Especially, a jazz artist should have common understanding with english literature in the way of the expression, we are to pay more attention to the different form of the artistic works and study more about them to express in our way.