Hearts of Pine

Hearts of Pine focuses on the selves and social lives that three former Korean 'comfort women' cultivated through song. During four decades of post-war public secrecy about the comfort women system, song served for these women as both a private and a public means of coping with their trauma - each used song in a different way to reckon with their experiences and to forge a new sense of self.

Joshua D. Pilzer grew up in Virginia and Nashville, Tennessee playing folk music and punk rock. He discovered Korean music in 1993, and soon after began graduate work in ethnomusicology, studying at the University of Hawaii and the University of Chicago, where he completed his PhD in 2006. He has since worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Columbia University, and the University of Toronto, where since 2009 he has been Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Music.

Preface
A Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Beginnings
Pak Duri
Mun Pilgi
Bae Chunhui
Epilogue
Appendix: Pak Duri's Testimony
Notes
Bibliography
Discography
Index