Dr Roald H. Maliangkaij
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Areas of expertise
- Musicology And Ethnomusicology 190409
- Social And Cultural Anthropology 160104
- Asian History 210302
- Asian Cultural Studies 200202
- Consumption And Everyday Life 200203
Research interests
South Korea's cultural industries and cultural policy, music, folklore, popular entertainment, fashion, and marketing.
Biography
Since finishing my PhD on the preservation of folksongs in South Korea, I have expanded the scope of my research to include popular culture. I am fascinated by the mechanics of cultural policy and the challenges of studying the dynamics of major cultural phenomena, mainly from a sociological point of view. In broad terms, my research analyses Korea's cultural industries and cultural policy from the early twentieth century to the present.
Career highlights
Program Director, Master's in Contemporary Asian Studies (University of Amsterdam, 2005); Branch Head, International Institute of Asian Studies (University of Leiden, 2005); Program Coordinator, SEPHIS, International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam, 2004-05). Time Out food critic 1995-2000.
Publications
- “Catering to the Female Gaze: The Semiotics of Masculinity in Korean Advertising,” Situations 2:1 (Winter 2013/14): 47–66.
- “The Popularity of Individualism: The Seo Taiji Phenomenon in the 1990s,” in Kyung Hyun Kim and Youngmin Choe, eds., The Korean Popular Culture Reader (Durham and London: Duke University Press), pp. 296–313.
- “There is No Amen in Shaman: Traditional Music Preservation and Christianity in South Korea,” Asian Music 45:1 (Dec. 2013): 77–97.
- “A Tradition of Adaptation: Preserving the Korean Ritual for Paebaengi,” in Keith Howard, ed., East Asian Music and Cultural Heritage (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012), pp. 141–59.
- “Hallyu, Hype, and the Humanities: The Impact of the Korean Wave on Korean Studies,” Strengthening Korean Studies in the Philippines: 2012 Philippine Korean Studies Symposium Proceedings (Manila: UP Dept of Linguistics, 2012), pp. 32–9.
- “True Beauty is Superficial: Comparing the Ideal of Male Beauty in China and Korea,” Is a Trans-Asia Possible? Yonsei conference proceedings (Seoul: Yonsei University, Dec. 2012), pp. 21–8.
- Book Review: Andrew Killick, In Search of Korean Traditional Opera: Discourses of Ch’angguk, in Asian Studies Review 36:1 (2012): 136–37.
- Book Review: Laurel Kendall, Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism, and Performance, in Asian Studies Review 36:1 (2012): 137–39.
- “Koreans Performing for Foreign Troops: The Occidentalism of the C.M.C. and K.P.K.,” East Asian History 37 (2011): 59–72.
- “Noise, Dirt and Naughtiness: Cinema and the Working Class During Korea’s Silent Film Era,” Asian Ethnology 70:1 (2011): 1–31.
- “The Power of Representation: Korean Movie Narrators and Authority,” Journal of Korean Studies 16:2 (2011) — Unsettling the National in Korean Cinema, 213–30.
- "Meaningful Rituals are Rooted in Place", Wolgan chungang [Central Monthly] 12 (2010): 284–88.
- "The Effeminacy of Male Beauty in Korea", IIAS Newsletter 55 (2010): 6–7.
- "Keep Your Enemies Closer: Protecting Korea's Pop Culture in China", Korean Histories 2:1 (2010): 34–44.
- "Creating a Different Wave: Animating a Market for Korean Animation", in Daniel Black, Stephen Epstein and Alison Tokita (ed.), Complicated Currents: Media Flows, Soft Power and East Asia. Melbourne: Monash University Press, 2010, pp. 11.1-11.9.
- Book Review: Keith Howard, Chaesuk Lee and Nicholas Casswell, Korean Kayagum Sanjo: A Traditional Instrumental Genre", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 72:1 (2009): 68–70.
- "Korean Pop Culture's Growing Challenges", in The Korea Herald (ed.), Insight into Korean Series 5: Korean Wave. Seoul: Jimoondang International, 2008, pp. 213–21.
- "Konjon kayo: South Korea's Propaganda Pop", in J.E. Hoare and Susan Pares (eds.), Korea: The Past and the Present, Vol. 1. Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental, 2008, pp. 171–82.
- Book Review: Healing Rhythms: The World of South Korea's East Coast Hereditary Shamans, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 71:2 (2008): 388–89.
- Book Review: P'ungmul: South Korean Drumming and Dance, Asian Folklore Studies 67:1 (2008): 160–62.
- "New Symbolism and Retail Therapy: Advertising Novelties in Korea's Colonial Period", East Asian History 36 (2008): 29–54.
- "Staging Korean Traditional Performing Arts Abroad: Important Intangible Intercultural Performance Issues", Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies 7:2 (2008): 49–68.
- "Them Pig Feet: Anti Japanese Folksongs in Korea", in Remco E Breuker (ed.), Korea in the Middle: Korean Studies and Area Studies: Essays in Honour of Boudewijn Walraven. Leiden: CNWS Publications, 2007, pp. 157–85.
- "Their Masters' Voice: Korean Traditional Music SPs under Japanese Colonial Rule", The World of Music 49:3 (2007): 53–74.
- Book Review: Korea Bug, Acta Koreana 9:2 (2006): 183–85.
- "When the Korean Wave Ripples", IIAS Newsletter 42 (Oct. 2006): 15.
- "Korean Music", in Deshmitra and S.L. Kaeley (ed.), The World and its Peoples (encyclopaedia). London: The Brown Reference Group, 2006.
- "Pop for Progress: Censorship and South Korea's Propaganda Songs", in Keith Howard (ed.), Korean Pop Music: Riding the Wave. UK: Global Oriental, 2006, pp. 48-61.
- "Supporting Our Boys: American Military Entertainment and Korean Pop Music in the 1950s and Early-1960s", in Keith Howard (ed.), Korean Pop Music: Riding the Wave. UK: Global Oriental, 2006, pp. 21–33.
- "Classifying Performances: The Art of Korean Film Narrators", Image & Narrative: online magazine of the visual narrative 10, March (2005): 15.
- "Korean Cinema's Relationship with Japanese Film: Moving Images Back and Forth", Dejima Film Festival Magazine. Amsterdam: Bioscoop Het Ketelhuis, June 2005, pp. 15–6.
- "Choosing the right folk: the appointment of 'human cultural properties", in Korea', in Ian Russell and David Atkinson (ed.), Folk Song: Tradition, Revival, and Re-Creation. Scotland: University of Aberdeen, 2004, pp. 95–107.
- Book Review: Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing, Acta Koreana 7:2 (2004): 201–5.
- "Creative Iconography: Selling Korean Traditional Music Abroad", International Conference on Korean Studies 2004, ed. Kim Tschung-Sun and Sem Vermeersch, Keimyung Univ., pp. 115–21.
- (with De Ceuster, K) "The Fashionability of Han", in Michel Demeuldre (ed.), Sentiments doux-amers dans les musiques du monde. Paris: l'Harmattan, 2003, pp. 201–12.
- Book review: Contemporary Directions: Korean Folk Music Engaging the Twentieth Century and Beyond, Acta Koreana 6:2 (2003): 167–71.
- Book Review: The Making of a Korean National Cinema, Acta Koreana 6:2 (2003): 171–76.
- Book Review: Contemporary Korean Cinema, IIAS Newsletter 30 (2003): 30.
- "The Revival of Folksongs in South Korea: The Case of Tondollari", Asian Folklore Studies 61:2 (2002): 223–45.
- "Healthy Songs for the People", IIAS Newsletter 25 (Dec. 2001): 15.
