대안적 근대성, 귀로 생각하기 = Thinking Alternative Modernities by Ear

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper suggests a preliminary study on the exploration of identity of Korean music or East Asian music in the era of globalization. It raises the following question implied in its title: “Which alternative ways of thinking can we choose to overcome the limitations of the Western modernity issues?” It has been challenged since the late 20th century the Western discourses on unilinear modernization based on Max Weber’s theory of rationalization. It is becoming more obvious that modernity can never be traced any more in a Eurocentric way, particularly sincethe 1990s, along with the globalization, having shed light on the characteristic processes of modernization in various areas of the world(e.g. in East Asian or Latin American countries), The academic issues of global history and multiple modernities raised by some groups of historians and sociologists such as Shmuel N. Eisenstadt and Jurgen Osterhammel have already suggested great implications for this. Those alternative modernities theories argue that the concept of modernity is not in the singular form but plural, and it has appeared not as a single cultural paradigm led by the West but as complex features intermingled with various civilizations. In this paper I will focus on Multilayered Modernities theory suggested by a Korean sociologist, Kim Sang-Jun. I will try to superimpose Kim’s theoretical schema on Walter J. Ong’s media anthropological 3 stage schema(primary orality, literacy and secondary orality) and to explore the ‘aural subject’ both in the ‘global modernity’(by Kim) and in the ‘secondary orality’(by Ong).