Analysis of ‘Anti-Japanese Music’ through Text Mining

This study finally analyzed 631 songs, excluding 170 overlapping songs and 129 songs with unknown production date, among 930 songs published in the <330 anti-Japanese music collection> and <600 songs of independence sung again>. After dividing the songs to be analyzed into 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, frequency and TF-IDF analysis, N-gram analysis, CONCOR analysis, and emotional vocabulary analysis were performed using text mining for each period. As a result of the analysis, the words appearing in the lyrics of anti-Japanese music reflected the appearance of each era from the 1900s to the 1940s and the aspect of the independence movement. During all periods of Japanese colonial era, anti-Japanese music was sung not only in Korea but also in various regions such as Manchuria, China, Russia, the U.S., and Japan, patriotic enlightenment movement, independence war theory, Korean-Chinese solidarity and conservatism. Therefore, anti-Japanese music is valuable as raw data that allow us to examine the history of the Korean independence movement from various angles. As it contains universal human values, anti-Japanese music is a genre that can be approached not only by Koreans but also by people around the world. Therefore, we hope that many follow-up studies on anti-Japanese music will continue.