2021
DOI: 10.1123/ssj.2019-0186
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Ice Dancing to Arirang in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games: The Intersection of Music, Identity, and Sport

Abstract: This cultural-interpretive essay offers critical commentary on Koreanness, racial ideology, hegemonic racial power, and racialized cultural taste with the aim of interpreting the sport–music nexus by examining a case of the interface between music and sport: The authors focus on the case of the Olympic ice dance that the South Korean team performed for the Korean traditional folk song Arirang at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games. The authors argue that music and sport can be understood as a semiologica… Show more

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“…14 Park (2021) analyzed the traditional Korean folk songs played at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, considering the relationship between theme songs and sport events in terms of culture and ideology. 15 That study suggested that theme songs can enhance the effectiveness of the Olympic Games for shaping specific ideologies.…”
Section: Literature Review and Research Hypothesesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…14 Park (2021) analyzed the traditional Korean folk songs played at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, considering the relationship between theme songs and sport events in terms of culture and ideology. 15 That study suggested that theme songs can enhance the effectiveness of the Olympic Games for shaping specific ideologies.…”
Section: Literature Review and Research Hypothesesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This example is another sign of how South Korea, as a postcolonial nation-state, insists on constructing its ethnic-centered national identity. More recently, Park et al (2021), and Park and Shin (2023) also discussed transnational power and coloniality in the sporting context.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Numerous scholars have carried out framing studies on the Olympics, and on a wide range of topics, from legacy discourses (Talbot, 2021) and Olympian funding mechanisms (Xue et al, 2018) to international relations (Yoon & Wilson, 2014) and television broadcasters' portrayal of gender (Johnson et al, 2021). Scholars have also carried out frame analysis around recent installations of the Olympics such as the Rio 2016 Summer Games (Talbot, 2021), the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics (Park et al, 2021), and the Tokyo 2020 Summer Games (Luo, 2022).…”
Section: Media Framing Indexing and Chinamentioning
confidence: 99%