Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University

Senior Lecturer, and Head of Korea Centre Email: Roald.Maliangkay@anu.edu.au Phone: + 61 2 6125 3191 Fax: + 61 2 6125 3144 Room: E3.07 Baldessin Precinct Building #110

Dr Maliangkay [BA/MA Leiden Univ.; PhD SOAS, London] convenes the Korean language program and the Faculty's graduate programs. He specialises in Korea's cultural industries, with a major focus on music and entertainment industries in the early and mid-twentieth century.

Books

• (with Dr Remco Breuker) Ten Takes on Korean Cinema: From Movie Narrators, to Posters, Pulp, and Gangsters (Brill, 2008, forthcoming).

Refereed articles:

• 'Staging Korean Traditional Performing Arts Abroad: Important Intangible Intercultural Performance Issues', Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies 7:2 (2008), pp. 49-68.
• ‘Kŏnjŏn 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. 171-182.
• ‘Their Masters’ Voice: Korean Traditional Music SPs (Standard Play Records) under Japanese Colonial Rule’, The World of Music 49:3 (2007) – Music and Politics on the Korean Peninsula, pp. 53-74.
• 'Classifying Performances: The Art of Korean Film Narrators', in Image [&] Narrative 10 (January 2005).
• 'The Revival of Folksongs in South Korea: The Case of Tondollari, Asian Folklore Studies 61 (April 2003), pp. 223-245.
• (with Dr Koen De Ceuster) 'The Fashionability of Han', in Michel Demeuldre (ed.), Sentiments doux-amers dans les musiques du monde (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2003), pp. 201-212.

Book chapters:

• ‘Keep Your Enemies Closer: Protecting Korea’s Pop Culture in China', Stephen Epstein and Zhang Yongjin (eds.), China and Korea: Competing Images and Contending Issues (Routledge, 2008, forthcoming).
• ‘Creating a Different Wave: Animating a Market for Korean Animation’, in Daniel Black, Stephen Epstein and Alison Tokita (eds.), Complicated Currents: Media Production, the Korean Wave, and Soft Power in East Asia (Melbourne: Monash E-Press, 2008, forthcoming).
• 'Advertising Novelties in Korea's Colonial Period', Laurel Kendall (ed.), Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity (Hawai`i University Press, 2008, forthcoming).
• 'Kônjôn 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. 171-182.
• ‘Them Pig Feet: Anti-Japanese Folksongs in Korea’, in Remco Breuker (ed.), Korea in the Middle: Positioning Korea (Leiden: CNWS Publications, 2007), pp. 157-185.
• '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 Korean Wave (Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental, 2006), pp. 21-33.
• 'Pop for Progress: South Korea's Propaganda Songs', in Keith Howard (ed.), Korean Pop Music: Riding the Korean Wave (Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental, 2006), pp. 48-61.
• 'Choosing the Right Folk: The Appointment of 'Human Cultural Properties' in Korea, in Ian Russell and David Atkinson (eds.), Folksong: Tradition, Revival, and Re-Creation (University of Aberdeen: Elphinstone Institute, 2004), pp. 95-107.

Other publications (selected):

• 'Goodbye Wave: Korean Pop Culture's Challenges', The Korea Herald (1 February 2008), p. 11.
• ‘Paebaengi’s Debut in Australia’, Korea Foundation Newsletter 16:7 (December 2007), pp. 10-11; Korea Policy Review 4:2 (2008), pp. 56-57.
• ‘Tuning in to the Folk’, 국악누리 [Folk Play] 81 (NCKTPA, Jan. 2007), pp. 24-25.
• 'Korean Music', The World and its Peoples (encyclopaedia) (London: The Brown Reference Group, 2006).
• The Righteous Revenge', 'Promise under the Moon', and 'My Beautiful Girl, Mari'; three entries in Frances Gateward (ed.), The History of Korean Cinema (Canadian Caboose Press, 2007, forthcoming).
• 'Tuning in to the Folk’, 국악누리 [Folk Play] 81 (NCKTPA, January 2007), pp. 24-25.
• 'When the Korean Wave Ripples’, IIAS Newsletter 42 (October 2006), p. 15.
• 'Korean Cinema’s Relationship with Japanese Film: Moving Images Back and Forth’, Dejima Film Festival Magazine (Amsterdam: Bioscoop Het Ketelhuis, June 2005), pp. 15-16.
• 'Healthy Songs for the People’, IIAS Newsletter 25 (December 2001), p. 15.

Book reviews (selected):

• Keith Howard, Chaesuk Lee and Nicholas Casswell, Korean Kayagŭm Sanjo: A Traditional Instrumental Genre, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 72:1 (2009, forthcoming).
• Nathan Hesselink, P’ungmul: South Korean Drumming and Dance, in Asian Ethnology 67:1 (2008), pp. 160-162.
• Simon Mills, Healing Rhythms: The World of South Korea’s East Coast Hereditary Shamans, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 71:2 (2008), pp. 388-389.
• J. Scott Burgeson, Korea Bug, in Acta Koreana 9:2 (July 2006), pp. 183-185.
• Chan E. Park, Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing, in Acta Koreana 7:2 (July 2004), pp. 201-205.
• Nathan Hesselink (ed.), Contemporary Directions: Korean Folk Music Engaging the Twentieth Century and Beyond, in Pacific Affairs 76:2 (800-word version), pp. 314-315; Acta Koreana 6:2 (July 2003, 1910-word version), pp. 167-171.
• David E. James and Kyung Hyun Kim (eds.), Im Kwon-Taek: The Making of a Korean National Cinema, in Acta Koreana 6:2 (2450-word version, July 2003), pp. 171-176; IIAS Newsletter 31 (July 2003, 1000-word version), p. 39.
• Hyangjin Lee, Contemporary Korean Cinema, in IIAS Newsletter 30 (March 2003), p. 30.
• Hyung Il Pai, Constructing “Korean” Origins: A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography, and Racial Myth in Korean State Formation Theories, in Acta Koreana 4 (July 2001), pp. 170-173.

Career highlights:

• Programme Director, Master's in Contemporary Asian Studies (University of Amsterdam, 2005)
• Branch Head, International Institute of Asian Studies (University of Leiden, 2005)
• Programme Coordinator, SEPHIS, International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam, 2004-05).

Memberships

• Editorial Board, Asian Ethnology (Nagoya, Japan).
• Committee, Korean Studies Association of Australasia (KSAA)
• Association for Korean Music Research (AKMR)
• Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA)