In the wake of the Asia-Pacific War; Korean survivors of the "comfort women" system-those bound into sexual slavery for the Japanese military during the war-lived under great pressure not to speak about what had happened to them. Hearts of Pine brings us into the lives of three such survivors: Pak Duri; Mun Pilgi; and Bae Chunhui. Over the course of eight years; author Joshua Pilzer worked with these now-elderly women; smoking with them; eating with them; singing and playing with them; trying to understand and document their worlds of song. During four decades of secrecy and the subsequent decades of the "comfort women" protest movement; singing served these women as a means of coping with and expressing their experiences; forging and sustaining identities and social relationships; and recording and conveying their struggles and philosophies of life. Through these intimate portraits; Hearts of Pine illustrates the personal and social power of music vis-?-vis other expressive media; models a humanistic history of modern Korean music; and presents heretofore unrecorded histories of the "comfort women" system and postwar South Korean public culture written in womens song.
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