Hearts of Pine

Event Details

Time: May 3, 2012 from 6:30pm to 8pm
Location: The Korea Society
Street: 950 Third Ave., 8th fl.; entrance on 57th St.
City/Town: NYC
Website or Map: http://www.koreasociety.org/a…
Phone: natalee.ny@koreasociety.org
Event Discipline: literary, music
Organized By: The Korea Society
Latest Activity: Apr 24, 2012

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Event Description

Author and ethnomusicologist Joshua Pilzer will talk about his recently published book, Hearts of Pine, a narrative account of the lives of three Korean survivors of the "comfort women" system - those bound into sexual slavery for the Japanese military during the war. The author will share the music and memories he heard over the course of the ten years he spent working, eating, and singing with these elderly women, trying to understand and document their worlds of song which had served as their coping mechanism.